6 December 2010
State and territory Progress Reports highlighting National Partnership achievements are now available.
11 November 2010
The Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, today announced $24 million in funding for new intensive literacy and numeracy projects for Indigenous students.
4 November 2010
The Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, has announced the schools that have been successful in Round Three of the Trade Training Centres in Schools Program.
26 August 2010
The fundamental building blocks of literacy and numeracy are being celebrated across Australia during National Literacy and Numeracy Week between 29 August and 4 September 2010.
31 July 2010
The consultation period for the draft Australian Curriculum in English, mathematics, science and history has concluded.
29 June 2010
Building the Education Revolution (BER) is a key element of the Australian Government’s Nation Building – Economic Stimulus Plan and will provide infrastructure funding so each of Australia’s 9540 schools can meet the needs of 21st century students and teachers.
15 February 2010
The Australian Government has entered into National Partnerships with the states and territories in the key areas of addressing disadvantage, supporting teachers, and improving literacy and numeracy.
1 February 2010
The My School website was launched 28 January 2010 and had over 9 million hits on the first day. This was significantly higher than expected. ACARA has increased the capacity of the site to handle the very high level of interest.
20 October 2009
The Australian Government is committed to an education system that pursues excellence for all Australian schools and where every child receives the highest quality education.