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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 ...

One of the busiest and most engaging presentations at this year’s conference was Dr Devin Kearn’s Using explicit instruction to increase student achievement. Kearns prefaced his presentation with the fact that, while explicit instruction is essential for students with learning ...

A Melbourne school is leading the way towards a sustainable future, becoming one of the first schools in Australia to become 100 per cent net renewable by 2020. Presbyterian Ladies’ College (PLC) has signed an agreement with a wholesale electricity ...

In her opening address to this year’s Successful Learning Conference – now in its 25th year – the head of the University of Sydney's School of Education and Social Work, Professor Debra Hayes, used a poignant anecdote of her sister’s schooling in ...