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Dr Steven Greene shares his tips about what note-taking is, why it’s important and some strategies for doing it well in the third installment of our series on studying for success. Greene says effective note-taking should be “an accurate record ...

It’s an alarming statistic that educator Stephanie Wescott now belongs to: leaving the teaching profession after just five years of practice. In a wide-ranging interview in The Age, which covered everything from teachers not “being trusted to do their work” ...

Whether you agree with him or not, Mark Latham is always passionate about getting things done, and his latest agenda has been improving NSW’s education system, particularly performance-based teacher pay and lifting student achievement across the board. Listen to a ...

A US-based teacher exchange program is accepting applications for Australian and New Zealand teachers wishing to participate in a teacher exchange program in the United States next year. For over 30 years, Participate Learning has had nearly 10,000 teachers from ...

As we reach the end of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week, which has run since 1946, an important yet often forgotten lesson is simply reading for pleasure. Education Review spoke to senior lecturer at Monash University, Dr ...

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 ...

It’s one of the pressing issues of our age: How, if at all, can we humanise technology? That’s the big question for this year’s Game Changer Challenge, an annual competition that began in 2018 and is open to over 2200 ...

    Teacher performance-linked pay, teacher performance generally and student achievement – these are three issues that are never far from the headlines. But are the debates founded on sound evidence or merely the thought bubbles of politicians and populist ...

The ICC T20 Cricket World Cup will be incorporated into an Australian Curriculum-aligned Schools Program this year. Working in collaboration with Cricket Australia, the program will comprise “exploratory learning units” for both primary and secondary students aged 5-16 and complement ...

In episode two of Studying for Success, Dr Steven Greene introduces us to the fundamentals of managing information properly – from file storage, USB storage and interesting graphic organisers to colour-coded topic sections. These techniques will make help students organise ...