With more than 1000 Steiner schools worldwide, the specialist schools that teach the work of Rudolf Steiner have been growing at a rapid rate.

Shlomo Sand has outraged many with his book The Invention of the Jewish People, which questions whether Jews were really exiled from the land of Israel, writes Jason Koutsoukis.

The federal government measures academic output in ways similar to Britain, but that system looks set to implode.

THE indigenous leader Noel Pearson has blamed poor education standards among Aborigines on the "ideology producers" in academia, "ideology-upholders" in the public service and the white middle-class left whose sympathy for the disadvantaged hurt those they hope to help.

HUNTER TAFE says no jobs will be lost and no staff transferred under a plan to create a specialist hospitality school at its Kurri Kurri campus.