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There have been more than 100 reviews of teacher education in Australia since the 1970s.1 Reforming teaching and teacher education appears to have been seen as a ‘policy problem’ by successive Australian governments for a long time. The Commonwealth government’s ...

Australia's education sector is under fire, having recently ranked 39 out of 41 countries from the European Union and OECD when it comes to a quality education for children. With education being Australia’s fourth-largest export earner, it is essential for ...

From 2015 to 2016, there was a 41 per cent increase in school incidents. This growing number of emergency situations has prompted a rethink of how educators respond to and communicate in a crisis. In the event of a natural ...

Australia's leading not-for-profit student volunteering organisation, Kids Giving Back, recently celebrated its fifth year of operation in Australia. To mark this occasion, an industry event was held at Rough Edges, a homeless community partner in Darlinghurst, Sydney, bringing together educators, ...

Professional learning can help school leaders, teachers, school staff and students strengthen their wellbeing As educators, we are aware of the importance of the social and emotional learning (SEL) we facilitate for the children and young people within our schools ...

What do you want to be when you’re older? It’s a question nearly every teenager is asked, yet it’s an increasingly redundant line of enquiry. Not because today’s students don’t have aspirations – far from it – but because many ...

Like reading and writing, data literacy must be developed early in a child’s education. In today’s digital economy, making sense of data is paramount to organisations far and wide. As such, data and analytics skills are in demand across all ...

A love of teaching and a commitment to leadership and professional learning have helped Scone Grammar’s head of primary inspire others to great success. Graeme Feeney’s career as an educator has taken him from the Blue Mountains in NSW, across ...

The current policy climate in teacher education in Australia has a focus on accountability for outcomes as judged by a decreasing trend of primary and secondary student performance on a range of national (NAPLAN) and international rankings (Program for Internal ...

With the right strategies, LinkedIn can be a powerful online tool for schools. LinkedIn is so much more than simply an online resume for graduating students or a branding and alumni tool for secondary schools and colleges. There are many ...