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 ...

Ever since a sole, rudimentary computer was rolled into Nicole Barnes’s classroom at the beginning of her career, she was captivated by the possibilities it held for her classroom practice. We’ve come a long way since then, but Nicole’s passion ...

As any educator will tell you: telling your students about something is one thing, but being able to show them is another. That’s the idea behind On Safari, the latest Google Expedition created by the NSW Department of Education and ...

Although technology plays a key role in the classrooms of Stamford American International School in Singapore, the overarching belief is that it has to enhance teaching practice and not just be used for the sake of it. That’s the key ...

Reading instruction, perhaps more than any other teaching practice, has always been fiercely contested, with the ‘war’ between phonics and whole language instruction reaching right back to the 1800s. In recent times, however, a lot of evidence-based research has underscored ...

Most teachers in Scotland are working essentially one extra day each week. That’s one of the key findings of a survey of 12,000 members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union, released today. Of the full-time teachers who responded ...

A Philippine tradition may be made into law, with the House of Representatives green-lighting a measure requiring students to plant at least 10 trees before they graduate. Currently, it’s something of a rite of passage for a Philippine student to ...

Parents who read to their child aged one to two years daily are gearing them up for stronger literacy, language and numeracy results at school. That’s the message from new Charles Sturt University research. Study lead and post-doctoral research fellow Dr ...