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South Australian Premier Mike Rann is in a strong position to deliver the Labor Party a third term in government despite a voter backlash.
Mr Rann and Liberal leader Isobel Redmond both said the result was too close to call on the night.
But Mr Rann is the frontrunner with the ABC’s election computer predicting Labor is [...]

The Rann Labor government may be able to hold on and serve a third consecutive term in South Australia, as vote counting shows a big, but far from uniform, swing to the Liberals.
The Opposition seems unlikely to pick up some of the most marginal Labor-held electorates it would need for a win.
Labor is expected to [...]

Special needs students and teachers are rallying at Parliament House in Canberra today in protest against funding cuts to disability education.
The group will present their concerns in a meeting with Education Minister Julia Gillard.
Principal of St Lucy’s School in Wahroonga, Jo Karaolis, says funding for special needs schools is inadequate.
But she says the problem is [...]

An Upper House inquiry will examine how the New South Wales Government is spending federal education stimulus money.
The State Opposition has secured cross-bench support for an investigation into the Building the Education Revolution (BER) program.
More than $3 billion is being spent in New South Wales on new assembly halls, classrooms, libraries and covered outdoor learning [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 (IANS) The Kerala assembly Tuesday witnessed uproarious scenes and a walkout by the opposition over the alleged tampering of marks of law students, details of which are said to have been leaked by a Kerala University official who is the wife of the deputy leader of opposition.
Sulekha, the university’s controller of exams, [...]

Chandigarh, March 16 (IANS) A delegation of literary people and politicians Tuesday submitted a memorandum to Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil seeking first language status for Punjabi in this union territory (UT).
The delegation, led by state Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, also urged Patil, who is also the Chandigarh administrator, to declare Punjabi as a [...]

A group of Agnes Water parents will meet Education Queensland representatives next month to discuss a proposal to build a high school in the town.
In February a petition was tabled in Parliament with more than 350 signatures calling for the school.
Currently 100 local students were travelling for up to four hours to nearby towns go [...]

The State School Teachers Union suspects a plan to cut years 11 and 12 from 21 WA district high schools is part of a Government cost cutting exercise.
Year 11 and 12 subjects have already been cut at schools including Wyndham, Dalwallinu and Kelleberin, and the State Government intends to phase out courses at other country [...]

Labor has promised to spend $60 million to expand four popular Adelaide secondary schools.
Its proposed expansion would create up to 800 extra student places at Marryatville, Glenunga, Brighton and Adelaide High.
During the election campaign, the Opposition has promised it would build a second Adelaide High School campus to help meet growing demand.
Education Minister Jane Lomax-Smith [...]

Chandigarh, March 15 (IANS) The Punjab assembly Monday unanimously passed a resolution seeking Punjabi be accorded first language status in the union territory (UT) of Chandigarh.
A central government administered UT, Chandigarh is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.
The resolution, moved by Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur, said Chandigarh city was established (in early 1950s) in [...]

New South Wales TAFE teachers have voted to end their long running dispute with the State Government over pay and conditions.
A majority of teachers indicated their support for a settlement to the dispute at meetings held across the state this morning.
The deal includes improvements to the teachers working conditions.
But the Teachers Federation says some concerns [...]

Canberra (Australia), Sep. 14 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard said every effort would be made by her government to ensure the safety of international students in the country.

She was speaking on the opening [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday, ordered a high level inquiry into the stampede at a Delhi Government School in East Delhi that killed five students and injured at least 24.

Dikshit and state Education Minister Arvinder [...]

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, begins her inaugural five-day visit to India on 31 August.

The visit, which will take her to New Delhi and Chennai, will strengthen Australia’s relations with India. Gillard is also Minister for [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Aug.22 (ANI): A group of 128 Indian non-governmental organizations have called on the Malaysian Government to appoint an expert in Indian affairs to head the Universiti Malaya’s department for Indian studies.

The Star quoted coordinator K. Arumugam, who is the group’s spokesman, as saying the expert should have indepth knowledge of Malaysian Indian [...]

New Delhi, Aug.21 (ANI): The Congress and its allies on Friday won nine of the 17 seats in assembly by-polls spread over five states.

In Tamil Nadu, the win for the Congress and its ally the DMK was largely helped by the boycott of opposition [...]

Laitumkhrah (Meghalaya), Aug 21 (ANI): The Congress won the by-poll to Laitumkhrah constituency by a huge margin of 2,327 votes on Friday.

Congress nominee and Meghalaya Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh defeated United Democratic Party (UDP) candidate Malcolm Tariang.

Lyngdoh polled 5,800 votes over Tariang’s 3,473 [...]

Melbourne, Aug.21 (ANI): Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard will undertake a five-day visit of India from August 30.

The visit is being seen as an effort on the part of Canberra to ramp up official efforts to rehabilitate Australia’s reputation as a non-racist prime center of higher education on the sub-continent.

The Gillard [...]

Melbourne, Aug.20 (ANI): The Australian Government proposed crackdown on vocational colleges and universities could leave thousands of international students, especially those from India, looking for somewhere else to study or needing refunds as rogue operators are shut down.

In a move to root out unscrupulous operators in the visa-driven sector, Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister [...]

Islamabad, July 5 (ANI): Following the bizarre incident of intermediate examination answer sheets being used as bread wrappers coming to light, the Balochistan Education Department has suspended the head examiner and examiner.

The Balochistan Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) chairman, Dr Ghulam Hussain said that both the officials have also been served show-cause notices for [...]