Pressure is mounting to cease normal school operations in NSW after the Australian Education Union (AEU) met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday, a day after the union met with Education Minister Dan Tehan. The AEU is yet to respond ...

Unlike Victoria and the ACT, New South Wales is yet to formally close schools, although students are encouraged to stay at home, especially if they are sick. As Education Review reported on Tuesday, this decision – backed by PM Scott ...

The My School website – which includes schools’ NAPLAN latest results from 2019, among other information – has been updated to reflect the annual test results in a more helpful light. The website change, which took effect yesterday, follows last ...

Teaching union officials have expressed concern that school shutdowns in NSW could lead to learning inequalities as some students will have access to better technology than others. The warning comes after the NSW Department of Education announced that virtual classrooms ...

The recent parliamentary inquiry into the state of NSW's education system painted a grim picture and put forward over 60 recommendations – including making direct explicit instruction mandatory and using school inspectors to assess teachers in the classroom without prior notice. ...

Schools across the country can now apply for grants of up to $500 to learn about the impact of the Stolen Generations, a part of Australian history that has until recently been written out of the history books. The grants ...

Twenty-eight “giants” of educational research have combined their findings on how students learn best and how teachers can encourage students to learn efficiently, enjoyably and effectively. The book, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in ...

The first national curriculum to address the learning needs of visually impaired students could soon be introduced across Australia, addressing long-held concerns about student equity and access. University of Southern Queensland (USQ) inclusive education researcher Melissa Fanshawe is “leading the ...

According to The Advertiser (30 September 2019), ‘In 2016, the Teachers Registration Board SA cited legal advice that the [LANTITE] tests could not be retrospectively imposed as an extra requirement, so made them mandatory only for students who began their ...

While the act of reading anything has long been encouraged, a study of 43,000 Spanish students has concluded that it is the quality of the reading material that really matters. Conducted by the University of Malaga and University College London ...