For principal Kris Willis, building an effective culture for positive outcomes all starts with a few good books. Twice a term, principal Kris Willis hosts a book club at Caroline Chisholm School in the ACT. After the students leave, he ...

Australia’s leaders aren’t working to make people see the value of taking up foreign languages; it’s our job to change that. Let’s talk about foreign languages and language education. Or should we? Does anyone care about languages? It’s not an ...

The Opera House and other arts institutions are already working to instil innovative thinking in young minds but more can be done. Creativity is hot right now, a buzzword right up there with ‘innovation’ and ‘agility’. Beyond the buzz, though, ...

There are a handful of steps schools can take to improve delivery of the skills students need for tomorrow’s jobs. STEM is one of the most talked about acronyms in education circles at the moment, and for good reason. Australia ...

Collaboration is the beating heart of effective vocational education spaces, an architect has said. Mark Freeman, from specialist educational architecture firm Gray Puksand, recently completed a $5.1 million VET facility situated in Melbourne’s Somerville Secondary College. Freeman said he worked closely ...

Among the fixtures of classrooms conjured up when on imagines schooling – tables and chairs, lockers for books and hooks for coats, the teacher’s desk and bunting for juvenile art – few are as storied as the blackboard. This surface ...

Witnessing students’ eyes light up when they understand a new concept or finally grasp one they’ve been struggling with is what we, as educators, strive for every day. But analysis of national and international testing programs tells us those “a-ha” ...

Students can now skate their way through the Victorian K-10 Curriculum. O’Brien Group Arena ice rink offers sessions, coaching and programs, that include AusVels’ Health Sciences and Physical Education components. The ice rink consulted a former teacher for 18 months. Paul Keisler, O’Brien ...

Children who are better at recognising patterns are better at learning grammar, research has found, challenging traditional theories of language learning. The researchers tested just under 70 children, aged between 6 and 8, on grammar and pattern recognition. The team ...

A uni chief describes the bonus ATAR points scheme offered by the four West Australian public universities as a 'carrot' to incentivise senior high school students into taking harder maths subjects. The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin ...