Administration, box ticking exercises and data-related menial tasks waste valuable preparation time and get in the way of delivering authentic learning Administrative tasks and record keeping had more than doubled in the past five years I feel overworked at the ...

Gonski has once again hit the headlines. This time, however, a school funding aggregate focus has been sidelined to debate how the money should be spent. This is due to the release of the businessman and education advocate’s government commissioned report on ...

In the February issue of Education Review I was interested to see in the table of contents an article titled “The end of segregation: Research shows single-sex schools won’t exist by 2035”. As head of a single sex school, this came ...

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, has an ATAR-related grievance. “Students select their courses with an eye to a number: the ATAR to enter a particular course,” he wrote in his introduction to the STEM Industry-Schools Partnerships report. “Rightly or wrongly, ...

This year, Harvard admitted a record high 20.3 per cent of students from modest or low-income backgrounds. Also, for the first time in a decade, a majority (50.1 per cent) of its admissions were female. There’s even an argument it’s becoming so diverse it’s ...

While certain experts think NAPLAN bizarre, parents and teachers, plausibly with more skin in the testing game, vociferously support it. Officeholders from the Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO), the Australian Parents Council (APC), and the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association of ...

$20 billion could relieve almost all world hunger for a year. It’s also the amount Australia lost due to educational inequality in schools between 2009 and 2015 – so avers the Public Education Foundation in its latest issues paper, What Price the Gap? Education ...

The lower-attaining the student, the worse the effect streaming has on them, new research has found. Published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, a study found that streaming creates a ‘culture of dependency’ in ‘lower’ classes, which inhibits students’ learning. Using data ...

NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes used a speech on Wednesday night to spurn what he perceives as schools’ overemphasis on STEM. Stokes, who has an Arts/Law background and has claimed he’s “no expert in matters of education“, contended “STEM seeks to dehumanise education – ...

Ever wonder why our children’s NAPLAN scores are stagnating, and in some cases, declining? Geoff Masters did, and now has an explanatory hypothesis. The chief executive of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) thinks the tests themselves could be ...