Australia’s largest supplier of education resources to secondary schools has congratulated the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) for its tireless work in bolstering young Indigenous Australians’ literacy levels and engagement across remote parts of Australia. Campion Education partnered with ILF in ...

A report tabled in parliament last week on the status of the teaching profession has been heavily criticised by teaching experts, with one calling it a “missed opportunity”. The report was prepared by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

Schools value research more than they actually use it. In its raw form, after all, it can be notoriously abstruse. Not only are scholarly papers replete with hard-to-penetrate jargon, but often the research base is hard to access, and abuzz ...

The sense that Australian teachers have been teaching increasingly diverse classrooms has been confirmed, according to a new report released from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). More specifically, the study concluded that Australian lower secondary schools and teachers ...

More than 55 per cent of senior high school students questioned in a recent survey claimed to be aiming for an ATAR of 90 or more. This is despite the fact that more than half the students participating in the ...

Feelings. It's probably not a word that many of us would associate with mathematics. But according to Dr Carol Aldous from Flinders University, feelings and intuition play a critical role in solving novel maths problems – problems that require students ...

Clarkson Primary School in Perth has kindled debate over children’s playtime after the school decided it would replace free play at recess with structural play in a move to get students engaging with one another. Principal Tony Shields said he ...

“Grace displays an ability to...” “John would see better results if...” “Ali demonstrates an understanding in...” Chances are Australian teachers have used one or all of these remarks when writing student report cards, perhaps even this week. And now, Australian researchers ...

John Goh, the principal of Merrylands East Public School in south-western Sydney, knew early on he wanted to be a teacher. He attributes that to having "great teachers", and one of those who inspired him to follow this path – ...

Last week's damning revelations about the treatment of some students with a disability in Australia's school system involved tales of seclusion, segregation and even abuse. While the disability royal commission heard of a few horrific stories only, there are doubtless many more ...