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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 ...

I must admit – I was never a Harry Potter fan. Perhaps I’m too old or realistic to believe in fire-breathing dragons. But I understand its purpose: escapism to hitherto unimagined worlds where things are possible. I can also appreciate – ...

A partnership was formed this week between Turnitin and NewsGuard to help both students and teachers identify misinformation and disinformation, improve their research abilities and hone their critical media literacy skills. Users of Turnitin, an anti-cheating program that cross-matches documents ...

Despite the Independent schools union being critical of the federal education minister’s plans to bring forward funding to Independent and Catholic schools if they meet certain attendance conditions, several may have agreed to the deal. While data on how many ...

If you were to ask any teacher if they expected online learning to take off so quickly, they are likely to say that this phenomenon is unlike anything they ever expected to witness. Despite the speed with which the education ...

Teachers at the Islamic School of Canberra stopped work for one hour today to protest against the protracted nature of the enterprise bargaining process with the School Board of Islamic School of Canberra. At the centre of the protest, which ...