Australian teachers want professional learning opportunities in the same three areas as their international counterparts: students with special needs, ICT and student discipline. This is one of the headline findings of the recently released Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), ...

They’re back. Professional standards for teachers – both their development and implementation – have re-emerged as a major priority for governments at federal and state level. Not everybody’s happy about it though. Some say there are too many players on ...

Darragh O Keeffe reports. It’s a case of life imitating art. In an episode of the popular cartoon series, The Simpsons, a premonition shows the students of the local public school, Springfield Elementary, learning their maths lessons from educational videos ...

This year, the newly constructed Darwin Middle School is welcoming its very first intake into Year 9, with Years 7 and 8 students having begun at the school in 2008. On a state-of-the-art, purpose-built campus, students are taught by dedicated ...

Amid Australia’s worst ever peacetime disaster last month, organisations across the nation rallied to fundraise and support the victims of Victorian bushfires. While banks and big business got out their chequebooks, schools everywhere were also making a contribution, not just ...

For some time there has been concern about the quality of teacher education courses,” says Professor Louise Watson of the University of Canberra. “Most of the recent reviews on the subject have suggested that university education departments are out of ...

It’s been hailed as the “best ever” longitudinal study and in its 35 years of existence, New Zealand’s Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study has produced some of the most remarkable findings about human development. It’s shown thumb sucking does ...