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Hi and welcome to another Education Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor. All stories can be found on our site, educationreview.com.au. You can either read this summary or ...

British education publisher Pearson will soon phase out printed textbooks as it embraces a “digital first” approach to its learning resources. The company, which is the world’s largest education publisher, said students will now have to “rent” printed textbooks, a ...

Imagine being the principal of a school with just two students. But if that wasn’t bad enough, imagine the school had a poor reputation, too. That was the predicament facing new acting principal Chris Burgess of Taradale Primary School, 100km ...

A recent paper commissioned by the NSW Department of Education sheds light on the importance of critical thinking skills in the future, strategies to teach critical thinking and the kinds of programs that do and don’t work. It should come ...

Hi and welcome to another Education Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor. All stories can be found on our site, educationreview.com.au. You can either read this summary or ...

Imagine you are at least halfway through your degree (93 per cent for me) and your university decides to spring on you that you now have to complete another hurdle before you are allowed to graduate. Not work. Graduate. Well ...

Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...

Violent encounters between parents, teachers and principals regularly hit the headlines, with politicians bemoaning a perceived lack of respect for teachers in society. Indeed, in a recent article for Monash Lens by educational and developmental psychologist Sally Kenney and Monash University’s Dr ...

Hi and welcome to another Education Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor. All stories can be found on our site, educationreview.com.au. You can either read this summary or listen ...

Text-matching software for detecting and preventing plagiarism is nothing new, but new software released by Swedish start-up Urkund in partnership with Androgogic promises to up the ante. In a world increasingly full of “copy and paste” and students paying for ...