Founded by teachers, LRTT is using cross-border teaching partnerships to make an impact in global education. This innovative approach uses two of education's biggest challenges to solve each other. Challenge 1: The Global Learning Crisis Quality education propels people and ...
More »‘Why not you?’: Making higher education a choice for foster kids
There are close to 50,000 children living in out-of-home care in Australia. This experience will often represent a huge disruption to what other kids would consider normal life. Many will face profound challenges that will ripple through into adulthood. Thirty ...
More »The ‘student voice’ in practice: who gets to speak?
In Victorian times, there was no such thing as ‘childhood’. Children were considered miniature, larval-stage adults, only a lot more stupid. Their right to independent expression and self-determination would have been seen as a preposterous joke. Today, almost 20 years ...
More »‘Outdated’, ‘morally questionable’: The growing push to ban group punishment in schools
For the crimes of few – or even just one – the group must pay. This method of punishment was a Machiavellian favourite of Professors Umbridge and Snape in the famed Harry Potter series. Remembering the injustice, one smoulders still. ...
More »The school inside an aged care home: Adelaide launches an Australia-first in intergenerational learning
Two years ago, the Kalyra Woodcroft aged care facility in Adelaide was giving another one of its regular site tours. Neither the guide, Terry Wilby, Kalyra’s Director of Care, nor the people being led through the grounds had any idea ...
More »Ain’t wellbeing great! But how can schools promote it if no-one knows what it means?
An abundance of evidence links student wellbeing to positive learning outcomes. With young people spending most of their day-to-day lives in school, these sites are critical environments to implement and encourage wellbeing through programs and practices. But what, precisely, is ...
More »Philippine bill passes requiring students to plant 10 trees to graduate
A Philippine tradition may be made into law, with the House of Representatives green-lighting a measure requiring students to plant at least 10 trees before they graduate. Currently, it’s something of a rite of passage for a Philippine student to ...
More »Advance your teaching career with Professional Honours
The Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours course at the University of Tasmania provides working teachers with enhanced skills and a greater edge in the job market. The degree is taken entirely online, with flexible study options designed to be ...
More »Elite hearts club: private school only dating app launches in Australia
Horrified at the thought of accidentally dating a pleb? Unsure whether that Tinder Adonis with perfect arms is of a lower pedigree than you? Darling, fret not. The market has answered. Last week, a private school-only dating app landed in ...
More »Lack of consultation before proposed subsidies cuts angers NT teachers
If proposed cuts to teacher housing subsidies in the remote Northern Territory town of Katherine go ahead, the area could be facing a teacher exodus, leading to a deterioration of education outcomes and community wellbeing. This was the view put ...
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