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The release of the 2021 NAPLAN results confirm there has been no statistically significant drop in student performance resulting from two years of the pandemic at both national and state/territory levels. But despite this positive news, the Australian Education Union ...

An education expert who has worked with scores of first year students who have been devastated with their Year 12 results has provided some helpful advice on how schools can support their students when the scores come in. Dr Lucinda ...

A new study has concluded that children’s books are still perpetuating outmoded and stereotypical gender roles, such as girls being passive and boys doing physical work and playing sport.  The study concentrated on eight day care centres in Australia and ...

An international team of academics has recently published research examining how teachers experienced the swift transition to online learning as COVID-19 impacted face-to-face learning across the world. As both student enrolments and teacher shortages are expected to increase in the ...

Ahead of the NSW public school teacher’s strike on Tuesday December 7, Education Review spoke with Michael Schiffer, an experienced school teacher and school counsellor in the Armidale region of NSW. He is also the the president of the Armidale ...

While the recent Centre for Independents Studies (CIS) analysis of how universities are “failing” to equip maths teachers with the basics in instructionist/explicit teaching techniques whipped up some criticism, the report’s authors defend its strong evidence-base, research design and and ...

Careers education is typically completed in the secondary years of schooling, yet two education experts argue that introducing the subject in the primary years will foster more student engagement, empowerment and curiosity among younger students as they consider “who they ...

Schools Plus, the national charity committed to closing the education gap caused by disadvantage, received funding applications amounting to $11 million from more than 380 schools across the country in its 2021 grant applications round. The charity reported that schools ...

The NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF) has released information relating to a “confidential” government briefing document, warning the state could miss out on a further 3,000 teachers if it fails to reverse the 30 per cent decline in the number of ...

Monash University has released a new report identifying the best strategies and practices to “overcome barriers” that discourage young girls and women from tacking on future careers in the STEM and IT fields.  Led by the university’s faculty of information ...