THE Gillard government has scrapped two successful education programs that boost science teaching across Australian primary and high schools.

School Education Minister Peter Garrett has confirmed two programs designed and run by the Australian Academy of Science will no longer be funded.

Primary Connections, which helped primary teachers with no background in science teach the subject, was only two years away from being self-sustaining and required an extra $1.5 million. The high school version, Science by Doing, has been running for only two years.

Coalition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said he would raise the government's commitment to science education in Parliament this week.

''The government's priorities are all wrong when they have enough money to waste on computers in schools and the school halls program, but don't have a very small amount to continue funding such important programs,'' he said.

Cameron Scott, a spokesman for Mr Garrett, said the government had provided almost $14 million to the academy to support science teaching.