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One of the key concerns surrounding school closures and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has been student wellbeing. As face-to face learning continues to be inconsistent across the country, schools require a way of measuring their students' wellbeing and, if ...

A stark warning has been issued by a senior health education expert that, if Australia doesn’t urgently reopen schools, a widening chasm of multigenerational disadvantage will develop between our children. “Other states and territories should follow South Australia to reopen ...

With conflicting advice from coming from different jurisdictions, and the need to quickly develop remote learning packages to ensure continuity of learning, teachers – as well as principals and other school staff across Australia – have been doing it tough. ...

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning framework needs no introduction to educators. It has been used in schools across Australia for years now to deliver consistent, evidence-based learning outcomes and is the culmination of synthesizing more than 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more ...

Michael Lawrence is a Victorian teacher and author of the forthcoming book - TESTING 3,2,1: What Australian Education Can Learn From Finland: A Teacher’s Perspective. Now that he's teaching almost entirely online, Lawrence argues that old disciplinarian models of behaviour ...

The phrase ‘home schooling’ is being used to describe what parents in some states in Australia and globally are experiencing, with the temporary cessation of formal face-to-face schooling in lieu of remote modes of learning. Undoubtedly, some students will find ...

The federal president of the NSW Teachers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos, has recommended returning to school in a "staggered" fashion after health restrictions lift, starting with Kindergarten and Year 12. Once authorities relax social distancing measures, instead of the entire student ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has threatened to wield a big stick at independent schools that do not resume face-to-face teaching for children whose parents want it or need it. Indeed, Tehan has threatened to remove funding if such independent ...

The messaging surrounding school closures has justifiably been characterised as mixed, with some independent schools closing their doors while others (mainly in the public system) remain open for students of essential workers and those with special learning requirements. Whichever way ...

A new study conducted by the  University of South Australia and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE) has found that a $30 million federal government program developed to improve literacy outcomes for Indigenous Australians has failed to meet its ...