Outside school hours care – also known as “school-aged care”, “OOSH” or “afters” – is booming. As of 2020, it was the fastest-growing childcare sector in Australia. As of 2022, it catered to 486,310 primary school children. Enrolments have surged ...

In my current role as CEO of Edmund Rice Education Australia Flexible Schools (EREA), I have seen first-hand the power of education to transform lives. I’ve also noticed that not all students fit neatly into mainstream school settings. Some have ...

After three years of floods, bushfires, lockdowns, and the seemingly endless pressures of the pandemic, Australian teachers are struggling. While many industries are back to business as usual, the new normal for teachers is anything but. Unmanageable workloads, long work ...

In an ideal world, if we saw a child who seemed unhappy, anxious, angry or shut-down, we would ask them whether something was upsetting them. They would respond immediately - telling us how they were feeling, what had happened to ...

With the teacher shortage looming large in headlines around the country, education minister Jason Clare has announced an expert panel to “inform a better and fairer education system”. The six-person panel includes Professor Pasi Sahlberg. Sahlberg is not yet a ...

An award-winning school principal messaged me recently, concerned that his upcoming Finland education trip might be wasted as someone had told him that the Australian and Finnish systems will never be compatible because: The Finnish language is easy to learn ...

With the start of a new school year, many students will be apprehensively anticipating the academic challenges ahead. How successfully will they navigate the many and varied demands of a busy curriculum? Will their efforts translate into good grades? Will ...

Recent headlines about students disengaging from mathematics paints a worrying picture. Some experts propose innovative ideas to rehaul the curriculum, others lament about the need to keep things as they have always been, teachers are given advice about how to ...

Many students, particularly in less advantaged locations, are not being taught by qualified science and mathematics teachers. Addressing this long-standing  issue has been a priority for governments because of declining student performance, poor student engagement and the significance of building ...

Some practices and ways of working, historically, have proven more enduring than others. Digital nomadism actually represents a huge step away from the long-established experiences and traditions of human learning which have customarily relied upon F2F (face to face) human ...