The Australian Mathematical Science Institute’s (AMSI) latest report argues that gender inequity and imbalance will jeopardise the nation’s intellectual capability, compromising both post-coronavirus recovery and future responses to pandemics. The report coincides with the 2020 International Women in Mathematics Day, ...

For years now STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines have been hailed as the key to making Australia an innovation nation. But, as a recent report by the University of Sydney and Monash University shows, issues of educational expertise ...

A partnership was formed this week between Turnitin and NewsGuard to help both students and teachers identify misinformation and disinformation, improve their research abilities and hone their critical media literacy skills. Users of Turnitin, an anti-cheating program that cross-matches documents ...

If you were to ask any teacher if they expected online learning to take off so quickly, they are likely to say that this phenomenon is unlike anything they ever expected to witness. Despite the speed with which the education ...

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 ...

What happens to our education system after COVID-19? Who knows. Teachers, for one, certainly don’t. Perhaps, that’s the problem with our system.  What we do know is that teachers won’t be left to their own devices – even though we are ...

As physical structures close down during the COVID-19 crisis, a plethora of virtual spaces are opening up, offering portals into worlds otherwise inaccessible. It took only two weeks for Earth School to open its virtual doors. Initiated by the UN ...

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 ...