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A new Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) paper highlights that beginning teachers are not being trained in evidence-based teaching practices for mathematics, despite policymakers’ efforts to improve Australia’s initial teacher education (ITE) and reverse declining international results, particularly in numeracy.   ...

A Sunshine Coast primary school will construct an innovative building that will replace traditional classrooms with learning environments tailored to the team-teaching model that underpins the school’s pedagogy. Designed by m3architecture, Suncoast Christian College’s new campus is informed by research ...

Large class sizes and heavy workloads can make it challenging for teachers to track their students’ performance at the best of times, but the pandemic and home-schooling has made this task even more of a struggle for many teachers. But ...

Data from the NSW Department of Education shows that more than 100 Sydney public schools have more temporary or casual teachers than permanent ones. Some of the schools with the lowest number of permanent teachers include Cronulla, Rydalmere East and ...

Federal education minister Alan Tudge has said the revised federal government's religious discrimination bill will permit schools to hire on the basis of faith, but not be able to discriminate on other characteristics. The government is hoping the legislation will ...

The draft Australian Curriculums (history) was front and centre at the education minister’s final meeting for 2021, following a speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), titled ‘Reforming Australia's Schools’, presented last month. In the speech, education minister Alan Tudge ...

When St Paul's College headmaster Dr Paul Browning recently wrote an article on LinkedIn, it garnered a lot of attention and support. The premise of the piece, which I'd encourage you to read, was that we are gradually "dehumanising education" ...

Both the education sector and the Australian public are well aware of the significant challenges COVID has presented to teachers and students over the last two years. Recent data cited in an article by the Independent Education Union of Australia ...

As attention turns to how 2021’s Year 12s have coped with two years of disruptions, a recently published Monash University study into the effects COVID-19 had on Year 12 students in 2020 found social events played a crucial role in ...

In an exciting development for the teaching profession, La Trobe University’s unique Nexus program has recently produced its first group of classroom-ready secondary school teachers.  In their first year, students work part time in schools and receive direct mentoring opportunities ...