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When Daryl Hanly was new to the role of principal he once congratulated a much more senior colleague on his retirement. "It was the 1970s and the retirement age was 55 and I said to him 'you must be so ...

Meredith Caisley is not sure she can even correctly pronounce the name of NZ's Governor-General-elect Jerry Mateparae, but she has nevertheless been won over by him. The night Mateparae's appointment was announced, she watched him being interviewed on TVNZ's Close ...

When many of us started teaching, the overhead projector, loudspeaker and stencil duplicator were the most widely used technologies in schools. Our classrooms had a blackboard with chalk and a duster, and we took our students to the school library ...

My sister works in remote indigenous schools in the Northern Territory and I had the privilege of spending a short but memorable stay at one school. During my visit I spent time working with a group of highly engaging indigenous ...

Stories about music education in schools tend to be negative - not enough resources, not enough time, not enough emphasis. This isn't one of those stories. Rather, it's about an immensely positive program, one that is countering a common, if ...

With the release of the four commissioned research papers at the end of August, attention has once again turned back to the Gonski Funding Review. It could have been just more of the same, but this part of the process ...

Australian schools have until the end of September to download and preserve any teaching support materials they need from the EdNA online network before it is shut off at the end of the month. The Federal Government pulled the plug ...

It seems every time I attend a conference, there is another 'next greatest thing' positioned in the educational marketplace offering to not only engage but enrich the learning experiences for all. We have seen a smorgasboard of hardware enter our ...

Three years into the Australian Government's education revolution, school principals remain unconvinced, with many opposing key elements of the reforms. A new survey of 1600 school leaders, commissioned by Principals Australia, shows widespread division over the external push to reform ...

A strong message for the Federal Government from the Principals Australia survey is that principals do not like the idea of doling out rewards to teachers based on a quota system. Asked if they support the proposed quota, in which ...