Australia's youngest senator wants 16-year-olds to do something they've never done before: vote. "For far too long, politics has failed to properly represent young people or the issues they care about," Jordon Steele-John, a 23-year-old West Australian Greens representative, told parliament ...
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Why Victoria should change its school term structure: opinion
Winter has started. Cold, short days add to the challenge of a long second term for teachers, students and families in Victoria. First term is now a distant memory but anyone associated with schools in Victoria would be saying to ...
More »Systematic review finds teacher racism impacts indigenous learning
"...Both students and parents have high expectations for achievement, but exposure to persistent and repeated negative representations of indigeneity or Indigenous academic ability from teachers and the media leads to disengagement, de-identification and reduced wellness." This statement, by a group ...
More »Teaching beyond post-modernism in a digitalised society: opinion
The rapid and exponential growth of the internet over the past 40 years has changed the nature of society. Indeed, at the end of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the internet is our defining medium. This has ...
More »Teen career uncertainty mostly negative
Much has been made of the inadequacy of careers advice in schools. Regardless, some young people simply know what they want to do for a living earlier than others. Erin, from Bondi in Sydney’s east, knew she wanted to be a ...
More »Teaching and inspiring the next generation of innovators: Lessons from EduTECH 2018
With the 2018 EduTECH juggernaut taking over Sydney’s International Exhibition and Convention Centre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour late last week, Education Review was on hand to bring you a snapshot of some of the key presentations on the opening day ...
More »Julia Gillard’s top five education policies: EduTECH 2018
Education always has been – and still is – central to Julia Gillard’s career. It is also clearly part of her core. The former Education Minister and 27th Prime Minister of Australia is now the chair of the Board of ...
More »‘Downward spiral’ in STEM can be stopped: ACER
STEM has been an educational buzzword for so long, some have begun to question its validity. Nonetheless, the STEM crisis persists. Last week, an Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) report, Challenges in STEM Learning in Australian Schools, posed three possible solutions ...
More »Youth unemployment can’t be fixed with NAPLAN: Mitchell Institute
A senate inquiry has heard that Gonski funding aside, schools aren't doing enough to prepare students for life. Victoria University's Mitchell Institute Director Megan O'Connell told the inquiry on the future of work that an intense focus on grades has led ...
More »Budget 2018: Government walks the Gonski talk
As expected, the 2018 Budget has delivered cash for the latest education reforms, the most notable of which is Gonski 2.0. The plan will see schools receive an additional $24.5 billion over the next 10 years, on a needs basis. While Gonski ...
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