Missed opportunities and lack of inclusivity in budget measures for early childhood education and care, say commentators. The federal government’s 2021 education budget allocation for early childhood has been met with a lukewarm reaction from the education sector.  As part ...

New research has revealed that teachers on short-term contracts are experiencing poorer job quality and feel under constant pressure to compete with colleagues to maintain employment. The study, which was led by UNSW Sydney, was also co-authored by education experts ...

This past week, ACARA released its draft revision of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics with the view to “refine, realign and declutter” the content. This has been long overdue. Since the curriculum was first published in 2010, Australia has performed poorly on international tests ...

Three of Australia’s teacher education experts have questioned statements made by education minister Alan Tudge that a review is needed into initial teacher education (ITE) courses and that some beginning teachers are not equipped for the classroom because they are ...

I am hoping that COVID brings about significant and, more importantly, relevant change to school curriculums, structures and operations. It's high time to scrap the Higher School Certificate (HSC) and explore other options for assessing student achievement. We can't keep ...

The scourge of coronavirus has placed an enormous strain on our educators and our education system. As a nation, we should have celebrated harder that teachers in all sectors were able to entirely re-imagine the learning experience for every single ...

I looked through the window of one of my Year 3 classrooms at my school to see Brayden. He was crying, frozen in a combination of anxiety and pure fear. It’s not what any principal wishes to see in their learning ...

Public school principals are struggling to provide adequate funding for students with a disability and report having to siphon funds from other school budgets to make up for the shortfall, according to the Australian Education Union’s (AEU) 2020 State of ...

A new report has found that Australian student achievement has continued to decline despite being one of the highest spending countries on schooling in the world.  In a report by the Centre for Independent Studies’ (CIS) Glenn Fahey, titled Dollars ...

An article written by ACER’s CEO Professor Geoff Masters has drawn attention to an issue relating to one of the common paradigms of school culture: the year-level school curriculum. As he states in his article, “the role of the curriculum ...