A champion of distance learning describes the benefits video technology can bring to classrooms around the world and in Australia – and explains just who has the most to gain from these innovations. By Antonia Maiolo. Marci Powell is global ...

  The Australian Academy of Science offers training to help educators deliver science instruction. By Dallas Bastian. An Australian Academy of Science program is helping primary school teachers improve their science knowledge and ability to teach the subject. Primary Connection ...

  Many teachers and schools are integrating new technology into the curriculum but more need to ditch old models and start adapting rapidly. By Annabel Astbury. In November 2011,  an article appeared online explaining that 3D printing would revolutionise education; ...

Andrea Flew has spent many years teaching and training people overseas, but her latest role in Myanmar stands out. By Antonia Maiolo For almost all of the past two years, Andrea Flew, an English teacher from Melbourne, has dedicated her life ...

Video conferencing turns schools into global crossroads.  By Fran Molloy It was 6 o’clock on a dark winter evening last term when the kids from Bronwyn Joyce’s Year 5/6 class came back to school with their parents, still in their ...

Educators discuss how to get more emphasis on Asia into the Australian curriculum. By Aileen Macalintal. Researches look more at how to make Australians more ‘Asia literate’. Australia’s interest in Asia did not come overnight. In fact, says a scholar, ...

A documentary inspired a school chief to spend his long-service leave helping poor children in Phnom Penh. It became a passion. By Antonia Maiolo In January this year, Simon Gipson, head of St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda, Melbourne, ...

Government, teachers and principals heading in different directions on why Asian literacy is important. Australia will need to overcome a glaring mismatch between why teachers, principals and government believe Asia literacy is important, if it is to achieve the goals set ...

A documentary inspired a school head to spend his long-service leave helping poor children in Phnom Penh. It became a passion. By Antonia Maiolo In January this year, Simon Gipson, head of St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda, Melbourne, ...

OECD questions if the move to a system of independent institutions is working Many of the new independent public schools in Britain are falling short of expectations, according to a London report. The recently published report by the Academies Commission ...