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Well-educated people often presume they are more left wing than they actually are and are also less able to recognise their conservative tendencies, research says.

Education Minister, Simon Crean, today announced an expert panel has been established to advise the Government on reform options for the Australian Apprenticeships system.

The Gillard Government is giving young people in South Australia more access to pre apprenticeship training opportunities, through a $3.5 million investment through the Apprentice Kickstart package.

The number of hospital emergency department visits associated with underage drinking nearly double over the Fourth of July weekend, a new U.S. government study says.

The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has escaped drastic cuts despite a tough austerity budget, but in a new report the National Audit Office has told the government it should get better value for aid to overseas primary education, and take "a tougher, clearer stance" on costs and performance. Andrew Mitchell, the new development minister, said there would be a spending review.

KABUL- Pointing to his flourishing wheat field in the western Afghan province of Herat, Abdullah says he regrets cultivating the crop.

People with autism often have a hard time finding and keeping jobs, so more schools are creating programs to help students with autism get prepared for the workplace. One of those programs helped change the life of Kevin Sargeant.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Pennsylvania will receive $141 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. These funds are part of the $3.5 billion that will be made available to states this spring from money set aside in the 2009 budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, today said that while the Opposition plots to slash education spending, independent modelling undertaken by Econtech, part of KPMG Australia, shows that achieving the Australian Government’s education and employment reform goals will boost jobs and the economy.

Three Palestinian girls educated in a United Nations-funded school in a refugee camp have made history by winning a top spot at an international science fair in Silicon Valley for a revolutionary walking cane for the blind which they demonstrated today for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York.