Education Review The latest in education news

When principal of Templestowe College, Peter Hutton, was at school, like many of us, he was told that one day the esoteric-seeming knowledge he gained would be useful. "That hasn't happened yet," Hutton quipped at a recent event. Perhaps this would have been ...

"It seems like everywhere we look … there's so much debate about education at the moment." Dr Sunil Badami is right: there's controversy over school funding, teacher standards and preparing students for the future, to name a few areas. The Future ...

Sector politics has long plagued school funding. But with the federal government's announcement of an extra $4.571 billion for independent schools, partisan outrage has peaked. There's even intra-party vexation. (Liberal) NSW Education Minster Rob Stokes told ABC Radio Sydney that it's "not fair" ...

Student writing skills have declined by nearly 24 points since 2011, according to the latest NAPLAN results data released in early September. Only 79.5 per cent of Year 9 students met the minimum writing standards in the 2018 literacy test, ...

The title of the 'Australia' section of the OECD's latest annual, education-centric report could be 'nevertheless'. This is because most negatives seemed to be counterbalanced with positives. For example, Education at a Glance 2018 revealed that while our university fees are relatively high, ...

Despite Hollywood's (increasing) portrayal of brilliantly successful autistic savants – from Rain Man to The Good Doctor – the reality of employment for those with autism is the opposite. ABS data suggests just 40 per cent of people with autism work, compared to ...

Remember those yellow 'Livestrong' wristbands? In 2003, now-infamous cyclist Lance Armstrong created a charity to support cancer research after he developed testicular cancer, and promoted it using the silicone rubber accessories. They soon caught on as a philanthropic status symbol, and ...

Tony Parker, a former high school geography teacher, isn't allowed to fully share his story of being bullied.† Legally, he is prevented from doing so. That's not, however, the kind of silencing he and his peers, Peter Anderson and Kathy Simpson, are aggrieved ...

As the Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa demonstrated, ageing infrastructure is an alarming problem facing the developed world. We need engineers to maintain this infrastructure, largely built in the post-war period and coming to the end of their design lifespans. ...

On Monday, Prime Minster Scott Morrison announced he doesn't send his kids to a public school because of "values". On the same day, the NSW government introduced new standards for graduate teachers, to be imposed from 2019. They include a ...