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A former NSW Crown Prosecutor has wrapped up his review of the state’s Department of Education Employee Performance and Conduct directorate (EPAC) – and confirmed “substantial flaws” in its investigations. EPAC was charged with investigating misconduct by Department employees and ...

Dr Melissa Cain and Melissa Fanshawe have a lot in common. They share a first name, are both university researchers and are mothers to 12-year old sons. But most remarkably, both of their sons have been diagnosed with the same ...

The latest Grattan Institute report found that men who scored lower ATARs at school but gained vocational qualifications in engineering, construction and commerce could have higher average earnings than if they had instead pursued a degree qualification. Uni at all cost? The ...

Parental licensing has long been mulled over by academic philosophers and political scientists, but a social work researcher says the idea is fraught with problems. James Cook University’s Dr Frank Ainsworth reviewed international studies on parental licensing – the idea ...

Families might be leaving some drought-affected areas of New South Wales to find work but teachers won’t necessarily need to do the same. The NSW government has committed to maintaining teacher numbers across drought-affected schools to ensure continuity for regional ...

Teachers aren’t likely to be able to ask 10 million people for help with school supplies – so US actress Kristen Bell is doing it for them. The Veronica Mars star is leveraging her Instagram following of nearly 11 million ...

With recent research showing that close to half of newly qualified teachers leave the profession within five years, the education industry must take practical steps to protect teachers from situations which may injure or harm them. Challenging behaviours in the ...

Anxiety can make a child’s world seem smaller and teachers should try to avoid helping shrink it. That’s one of the many pieces of advice Dr Mandie Shean, from Edith Cowan University’s School of Education, gave on the Body of ...

Your place of work might be affecting your gut health, causing issues like diarrhoea and irritable bowel syndrome. Now, Australian researchers want to explore those ties across all spectrums of work. Lead researcher Dr Phillip Tully, from the University of Adelaide, ...

The recent Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers (HALT) Summit in Darwin highlighted the amazing work and impact being made by teachers around Australia. But for me, it also highlighted a slightly disappointing aspect of the HALT initiative. Almost a decade ...