Education Review The latest in education news

All teacher education students will be required to pass standardised literacy and numeracy tests in order to qualify for graduation under a new plan to be phased in via a trial starting this year. The test, developed by the Australian ...

A prestigious Melbourne girls' private school has cut ties with the Uniting Church, preventing it from having a say on how the school is run. The Uniting Church has accepted "with some sadness" that Methodist Ladies' College is changing its ...

Segregation by wealth is a threat to academic performance; but a focus on collaboration, within the school and with the community, can help overcome it. By Tom Bentley A commitment to collaboration can make all the difference for a school ...

Officials hope there will be an explosion of students learning classical Greek once there's a curriculum for primary and high schools. The curriculum authority is now working on how students could learn Hindi, Turkish, Auslan (sign language), classical Greek and ...

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) has denied trying to embezzle thousands from its Brisbane college after allegations made by its former principal. Dr Mubarak Noor has reportedly filed a police complaint accusing a senior AFIC official and board ...

If the incitement of debate on controversial topics was the goal of the Edu Tech conference taking place in Brisbane this week, then its organisers must have been thrilled with the presentation of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Addressing ...

Collaboration is becoming increasingly important for the modern classroom particularly when it comes to improving productivity and effectiveness through technology, a roundtable discussion heard yesterday at a conference in Brisbane. Matthew O’Brien, head of strategic planning at Brisbane Boys College ...

Educators need to harness to power of digital tools to better support teaching, learning and leadership in schools. That’s according to Eric Sheninger, senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education, who spoke to educators from all across ...

A senior Harvard academic has issued educators at all levels of the education system as well as students and their parents a call to action to effect what he argues is a long overdue revolution in assessment and examination models. ...

Digital tools or traditional, value counts. Leading educators have stressed the importance of maximising the academic and financial value of student screen time to ensure any digital learning modality schools adopt is not simply technology for technology’s sake. During a panel ...