The Australian

TONY Abbott says teach British history so students know where we come from - and Aboriginal and Asian history doesn't get a mention.

Ewin Hannan, Stuart Rintoul The Education Department will interview a principal who allegedly allowed photographer Bill Henson into the school to find models.

Jamie Walker A UNIVERSITY has washed its hands of feuding academics who are waging their own culture war over the teaching of terrorism subjects. Dr Bendle had taken up the cudgels on behalf of researchers and security analysts who believe university terrorism studies have been hijacked by left-leaning academics pursuing an apologist, postmodernist agenda.

Justine Ferrari, Education writer ONE in 10 school students failed to meet minimum national standards in literacy and about five per cent are below par in maths.

Samantha Maiden, Online political editor
KEVIN Rudd has warned he's ready to brawl with unions and the states to deliver a new ranking system for schools.

Samantha Maiden, Online political editor KEVIN Rudd has announced individual school performance reporting will be a condition of funding under a new national schools agreement.

Adam Cresswell, Health editor AUSTRALIA'S childhood obesity epidemic has been "exaggerated" and government-led national prevention efforts may be misdirected.

Kevin Donnelly
IN justifying taxpayer-funded largesse to pay teachers more, the Victorian Government argues that parents and students will be the winners. In giving into the demands of the Australian Education Union, which consistently mounts campaigns to get ALP governments elected, Education Minister Bronwyn Pike suggests that standards will improve as teachers do a better job.

THE nation's top 100 companies should "adopt" a high school and provide students with mentors and examples of success.

Justine Ferrari, Education writer INDIGENOUS children in remote Northern Territory communities are being condemned to failure by a system of educational apartheid.

Paul Kelly DEPUTY Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants to extend the model of funding private schools on a socio-economic basis to public schools.

A DAY after the historic apology, the federal Government has taken the first step to improving indigenous education.

Kevin Donnelly
LES Twentyman's call for boxing to be taught in schools will have the Carlton latte set choking on their low-fat, decaf coffee, but there's no doubt that Les is on the money. One of the best ways to overcome the obesity epidemic, to teach self-control and to curb violence, is to get boys to put on the gloves.

Kevin Donnelly
IT comes as no surprise that Allan Luke, an academic at the Queensland University of Technology, cites the apparent failure of the US No Child Left Behind initiative as an argument against the phonics approach to literacy and increased testing and accountability in schools.

Kevin Donnelly
In his first parliamentary speech as leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd tagged education as a key policy issue. In the months leading to the November federal election, the ALP released a series of persuasive policy papers that presented a coherent and convincing narrative about what needed to be done to strengthen Australia's education system.