Teachers can achieve incredible things when bureaucrats get off their backs and actually let them teach.

Today, being Public Education Day, is an opportunity to acknowledge the critical role that public schools, preschools and TAFEs play in strengthening the social, economic and cultural fabric of Australian society. The Australian Education Union (AEU) believes that “free, public ...

School closures across Australia were not evidenced based, according to a recent report by The Centre for Independent Studies. The report, entitled ‘Pain without gain: Why school closures are bad policy’ and written by Blaise Joseph and Glenn Fahey, makes ...

What can we do differently to make the “new normal” a “better normal"? Teachers and Texthelpers Greg O’Connor and Fiona Thomas explore remote learning that works.

The cancellation of the upcoming National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy test (the first time this has happened since its inception over a decade ago), has provided education experts with the opportunity to get together to answer some big ...

Dr Lukas Carey, a long-time educator, trainer, coach and research academic at Edith Cowan University, recently published an article about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting incarnated learners, entitled ‘Education while imprisoned during the COVID-19 outbreak, the forgotten frontier’. While ...

Despite the Independent schools union being critical of the federal education minister’s plans to bring forward funding to Independent and Catholic schools if they meet certain attendance conditions, several may have agreed to the deal. While data on how many ...

Education Minister Dan Tehan has made an assurance that all Australian students will graduate with an ATAR this year, despite the multitude of disruptions and uncertainty brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the decision to not entertain a Year ...

Year 12 is a stressful period that’s jam-packed with content and finishes quite early in the year. Usually this is problematic enough, but with COVID-19 continuing to significantly complicate the education sector, this year will be particularly challenging for graduating ...

The My School website – which includes schools’ NAPLAN latest results from 2019, among other information – has been updated to reflect the annual test results in a more helpful light. The website change, which took effect yesterday, follows last ...