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The History Council of New South Wales has launched a statement emphasising the value of history and the ways in which it can enhance many aspects of our lives. Delivered by Dr Stephen Gapps at the recent Annual History Lecture ...

School boys’ writing standards have slipped again - Year Nine boys now write on average at a Year Seven level. It’s looking like an Australian education crisis, though not a new one. It is worth noting, girls’ writing has been ...

The release of the NAPLAN 2019 summary information showed writing scores for primary school students improved over last year’s results, but criticisms of the test and its purpose remain. While presenting the results last week under embargo, Australian Curriculum, Assessment ...

The prospect of rewarding high performing school teachers with performance-based pay is an evergreen issue that has recently re-entered public debate. In light of declining national student results in international testing, and concerns about whether entry standards for prospective teachers ...

https://youtu.be/ABciWrJpRUI   Gawura School, co-located at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney, is a coeducational K-6 school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children primarily from urban areas. Although located on Gadigal Country, it teaches a highly successful Wiradjuri language ...

An exclusive Sydney boys' school insists it has the "gold standard for protection" of students after one of its teachers was charged with possessing child pornography. Detectives were called to Knox Grammar School at Wahroonga on Monday afternoon after "a ...

This year’s Education Week theme is 'Every student, every voice'. This week is the perfect time to step back and reflect on how we can help strengthen our pupils’ voices, and consider why it’s so critical to do so. Helping ...

Students moving from primary classrooms to a secondary timetable suffer from a kind of culture shock when their expectations of school are radically challenged by the pace and siloed structures of faculty education. Students may find school overwhelming, disorienting and ...

There are some teachers who seem to be born to the role, such is their passion, energy and enthusiasm for the profession and commitment to the education needs and emotional wellbeing of their students. Within moments of meeting Chantel Mirzai, ...

Professor Pasi Sahlberg began his presentation at EduTECH 2019 by asking the rhetorical question "what do you do with a sick child?" Taking them to the doctor was the obvious reply. "So you can be very confident that whatever the ...