Preparing teachers for the new IT-heavy curriculum requires time, funding and focus. By Dallas Bastian. The new digital curriculum is causing nervousness amongst academics over teachers’ level of IT knowledge. Associate professor James Curran from the University of Sydney’s school ...

Placing health and PE within education faculties sends a message that physical fitness is for all. By Tim Lynch. Is health a club? There are many sporting or physical activity clubs people can join to be amongst others with similar ...

Lyn Stone believes everyone is born a linguist. She tells Antonia Maiolo how she makes the mysteries of the English language clear to teachers and students. Melbourne linguistic specialist Lyn Stone recently launched Spelling for Life – a handbook for ...

Broken commitments show the Federal Government’s lack of concern for education. By Lila Mularczyk. Pre-election platforms, pre-election commitments and pre-election promises all shamefully dismantled and discarded. As school leaders, we now focus on some of the darkest and most demoralising ...

The upcoming taskforce on preparing educators aims for a practical approach to getting results. By Greg Craven. One of the things that strikes me as I get older is that answers seem to be fewer and fewer and questions seem ...

Abbott sets the target high for multilingual study; getting there will require some changes. By Kathe Kirby. The Abbott Government has announced a game-changing policy to revive languages education in Australian schools by setting an ambitious target of 40 percent ...

Study calls for end of education department, larger class sizes to save money. By Antonia Maiolo. Higher-earning families should pay to send their children to public schools, according to a new report that finds government spending on education is too ...

Researcher to examine how teachers feel about their ability to teach students with special needs in regular classrooms. By Antonia Maiolo. A rise in the number of students with special needs being integrated into regular classrooms has a researcher questioning ...

Stakeholders debate impact of funding on student outcomes before Senate committee. By Antonia Maiolo. Too much weight is given to a student’s socioeconomic background, as research shows it makes little difference to academic outcomes, a Senate committee has been told. ...

Researcher says efforts to retain high-quality new teachers often fail because money isn’t overcoming disillusionment. By Dallas Bastian To retain high-achieving teachers, attention should be paid to their vision of the profession, rather than money, an education expert has said. ...