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 ...

A four-year program aimed at supporting the teaching of digital technologies has also improved many Australian teachers’ ability to quickly switch to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic when school closures were an ongoing occurrence.  Thousands of educators took part ...

Going from good to great isn’t necessarily easy. When something is going well, often there is no impetus to do it even better. “Why bother, the results speak for themselves? Our students perform well above norms.” In these circumstances, it ...

“What on earth possessed you to do that?”  Ever said that to a teenager? And if you haven’t, have you thought it? Many of us expect that teenagers will behave ‘logically’ and rationalise things the same way we do.  But, ...

That time of the year has arrived when Year 12 students across the country are commencing or about to begin their end-of-year exams.  While some Year 12 students have been impacted heavily by the disruptions and remote learning of 2020 ...