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It’s the place where stars are made and has a reputation for being a punishing yet almost guaranteed gateway into the acting profession – whether that be theatre, television or film. Some of Australia’s most esteemed and talented actors learned their ...

School closures across Australia were not evidenced based, according to a recent report by The Centre for Independent Studies. The report, entitled ‘Pain without gain: Why school closures are bad policy’ and written by Blaise Joseph and Glenn Fahey, makes ...

Clinical psychologist Dr Danielle Einstein is concerned about how well teachers are prepared to handle students returning to school across the country this week. “Teachers have not been provided with any training in pre-emptive mental health strategies and therefore are ...

A new study using data from 223 student surveys across 24 Australian schools has found that school interventions did not help to resolve severe cases of bullying and group bullying. UniSA’s Professor Ken Rigby found that school interventions “reduced or ...

EducationReview · Being a school principal during COVID-19 - Podcast They are the leaders of the school – the individuals who are ultimately responsible for the wellbeing of everyone in their school communities. And while the majority of school principals ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has attacked the Morrison government for failing to improve hygiene measures in public schools across the country, as public schools in New South Wales and other jurisdictions are set to reopen. Last week the government pledged ...

The cancellation of the upcoming National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy test (the first time this has happened since its inception over a decade ago), has provided education experts with the opportunity to get together to answer some big ...

Dr Lukas Carey, a long-time educator, trainer, coach and research academic at Edith Cowan University, recently published an article about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting incarnated learners, entitled ‘Education while imprisoned during the COVID-19 outbreak, the forgotten frontier’. While ...

The Australian Mathematical Science Institute’s (AMSI) latest report argues that gender inequity and imbalance will jeopardise the nation’s intellectual capability, compromising both post-coronavirus recovery and future responses to pandemics. The report coincides with the 2020 International Women in Mathematics Day, ...

For years now STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines have been hailed as the key to making Australia an innovation nation. But, as a recent report by the University of Sydney and Monash University shows, issues of educational expertise ...