Why is Maths so important?...

Primary school students from Wangaratta in northern Victoria have had the first taste of showbags for the 2010 Royal Melbourne Show....

Author Neil Grant and teacher David Williams brought together students from a city in war-torn Afghanistan and a bushfire ravaged Victorian town to write about their experiences. The result is a book called '1000 Pencils: from Kinglake to Kabul'. Here the students share their stories with ...

Students from Kabul in Afghanistan have travelled to the bushfire-ravaged Victorian town of Kinglake to share stories of courage and trauma....

The Opposition Leader has promised a $200 million fund to give performance bonuses to Australia's best and brightest teachers. Tony Abbott says the Coalition's scheme would start a year earlier than a similar proposal from the Government....

This selection of essays, written over a twenty year period, provide an insight into the unique imagination of author Gerald Murnane, and the obsessions that lay at the heart of both the man and his writing. These include horseracing, grasslands, Jack Kerouac, and the country Hungary: a country ...

The School Magazine is Australia's oldest literary magazine, and it's the oldest literary magazine for children anywhere in the world. It began in 1916 as a free publication for NSW primary school children, with the noble aim of presenting Australian writers for Australian children. ...

When the President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda said that Margaret Thatcher was "truly a person," what on earth did he mean? He was invoking a concept central to the philosophy of the Akan people of West Africa. This week, we look at what it means to be a person in a culture where the community matters more ...

We all have one - an accent - reflecting the language community where we first learned language. An online accent archive is recording as many of the thousands of variations of spoken English as possible, of speakers reading a set of lines that begin with: 'Please call Stella'. ...

Why is Maths so important?...