One of the busiest and most engaging presentations at this year’s conference was Dr Devin Kearn’s Using explicit instruction to increase student achievement. Kearns prefaced his presentation with the fact that, while explicit instruction is essential for students with learning ...

In her opening address to this year’s Successful Learning Conference – now in its 25th year – the head of the University of Sydney’s School of Education and Social Work, Professor Debra Hayes, used a poignant anecdote of her sister’s schooling in ...

Population growth and workforce turnover will see an education sector with too many jobs and not enough graduates. That’s according to Griffith University’s Professor Donna Pendergast, speaking on the back of research that revealed the fields of education most at ...

The full rollout of NAPLAN student testing online has been delayed a year, and state governments are going their own way on a broad review of the scheme. The decision to delay came at a meeting of education ministers in ...

Hi and welcome to another Education Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. All stories can be ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan says he hopes NAPLAN testing can go online from 2020, but admits more work is needed to resolve technical issues. Tehan and his state and territory counterparts will receive an independent report at a meeting ...

Teachers are regularly dipping into their savings and some have none to dip into. That’s according to a survey of 1,000 Australians from AMP Bank, which also found over a third of people in the education industry feel uncomfortable about ...

Australian teachers aren’t getting access to the professional development they need to tackle advanced ICT, teaching in multicultural settings and educating students with special needs. That was one of the takeaways of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) ...

Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Education Review. Welcome to our fourth weekly roundup of the key issues, events and debates of the week. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. This week was ...

Podcasting is the fastest growing digital content market in the world, with experts believing it will produce over $1 billion in revenue by 2021.  With its perfect blend of entertainment and information, the genre holds huge potential for education and ...