Last year alone, more than 75,000 babies were born in the outer metropolitan growth areas of our capital cities. That’s over 40 per cent of all births in Victoria, 54 per cent in Queensland, 55 per cent in Western Australia, ...

It’s federal election season in Australia. On 16 March, the Grattan Institute dropped a new report aimed at “charting a path to a more prosperous Australia”, declaring it to be a “policy blueprint to improve living standards for all Australians, ...

As a student in the 1970s, I got it. Traditional, conventional, mainstream education worked for me. I lapped up the lectures, the monologues, the explaining, the direct instruction. It all made sense, and I thrived. My teachers talked as much ...

Think about the most authoritarian teacher you had when you were at school. Likely to be male, it’s also probable that this teacher stood in ‘Authority Position A’. This was at the front of the room, perhaps even on an ...

In the 1960s, when the real post-war revolution in education began, teachers believed they were helping transform schools from traditional teacher-centred approaches to child-centred approaches.  From learning by rote and repetition to learning by doing. Teachers of that era were changing the student ...

There is no doubt that we live in challenging times. Our era has been labelled by some as ‘post-truth’, implying that truth is irrelevant where appeals to emotion and personal belief override evidence and objective facts. A post-truth world is ...

The recent discourse around banning social media platforms – particularly those that allegedly pose risks to privacy, national security and mental health – has escalated to a fever pitch. The Albanese government last Thursday introduced world-first legislation to enforce a ...

Many schools across the state are struggling with student numbers, student attendance and the ability to make learning relevant and fun. For a small independent school on the Mid North Coast, set up primarily to remove kids from the streets ...

The real problem forcing teachers out of the profession in Australia is rarely discussed in the media or other forums, yet it is those who have left the profession who can tell us the most about the issues. They have ...

The Albanese government is giving $70.9 million to education providers to fast-track 1500 new teachers into schools across Australia. The government statement said it is "tripling the number of teachers entering the High Achieving Teachers (HAT) program, which provides financial ...