Systematic comparison is a highly underestimated component of critical thinking, considered one of the most important 21st Century skills. A new PAT test for measuring critical thinking has just been released by ACER in October. The Progressive Achievement Test in ...

Monash University has released a new report identifying the best strategies and practices to “overcome barriers” that discourage young girls and women from tacking on future careers in the STEM and IT fields.  Led by the university’s faculty of information ...

A new Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) paper highlights that beginning teachers are not being trained in evidence-based teaching practices for mathematics, despite policymakers’ efforts to improve Australia’s initial teacher education (ITE) and reverse declining international results, particularly in numeracy.   ...

A Sunshine Coast primary school will construct an innovative building that will replace traditional classrooms with learning environments tailored to the team-teaching model that underpins the school’s pedagogy. Designed by m3architecture, Suncoast Christian College’s new campus is informed by research ...

Large class sizes and heavy workloads can make it challenging for teachers to track their students’ performance at the best of times, but the pandemic and home-schooling has made this task even more of a struggle for many teachers. But ...

Data from the NSW Department of Education shows that more than 100 Sydney public schools have more temporary or casual teachers than permanent ones. Some of the schools with the lowest number of permanent teachers include Cronulla, Rydalmere East and ...

The draft Australian Curriculums (history) was front and centre at the education minister’s final meeting for 2021, following a speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), titled ‘Reforming Australia's Schools’, presented last month. In the speech, education minister Alan Tudge ...

When St Paul's College headmaster Dr Paul Browning recently wrote an article on LinkedIn, it garnered a lot of attention and support. The premise of the piece, which I'd encourage you to read, was that we are gradually "dehumanising education" ...

As attention turns to how 2021’s Year 12s have coped with two years of disruptions, a recently published Monash University study into the effects COVID-19 had on Year 12 students in 2020 found social events played a crucial role in ...

The University of Queensland has uncovered a near 200-year-old first edition of the first known vampire novel in one of its libraries, which could well have been the travel reading of Charles Sturt as he voyaged to Australia. Vampire stories ...