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David Roy is no longer scared about losing his job. The erstwhile teacher, University of Newcastle education academic and longtime crusader for children with disabilities has called out the very organisation that is supposed to protect children. In an interview with ...

According to who you speak to, Gonski 2.0 may be a godsend. But it's how that money is spent that's crucial. The government knows this from experience: previously, it has spent more on schools for poorer outcomes. That's why it has ...

The teacher brain drain continues, NAPLAN's substantially unwanted, and stress levels are untenable. Those are just some of the disquieting findings from a new Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) and Australian College of Educators (ACE) teacher survey. From over 300 teachers surveyed ...

Never mind beautiful failures. University of Melbourne academic Tim Mayfield has deemed Australia a spectacular failure in terms of learning languages. Mayfield, who is executive director of the university’s Asia Education Foundation, noted that there has been a drastic decline ...

Teachers may be flustered by the advent of the My School website, showing individual schools' NAPLAN scores, but perhaps they needn't be. A Roy Morgan Research survey has revealed they are the fourth most trusted professionals in Australia. The market ...

"So God created mankind in his own image." — Genesis 1:27 The same can often be said for managers who hire employees who are just like them. This is a result of the mere-exposure effect, whereby people tend to be attracted to what ...

Each time international PISA and TIMSS results are released, the word Singapore is breathlessly mentioned. Although the city state continuously tops these tests, cracks are beginning to show in its educational veneer. Several academics have pointed out flaws in the tests themselves, including ...

According to recent figures, about twice annually, a gamer dies. In January 2015, A 32-year-old man was found dead in an internet cafe in Taiwan. In September that same year, a Russian teenager died after playing Defence of the Ancients ...

After its relatively whirlwind journey, the Gonski 2.0 school funding package has passed into law, thanks to the support of several crossbenchers. The Independent Schools Council of Australia (ISCA), for one, is satisfied. ISCA executive director Colette Colman told Education Review the ...

Just south of the border between England and Scotland and west of the rugged Pennines lies the University of Cumbria. There, this week, director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute professor John Hattie urged teachers to give social media a go in ...