Teachers can achieve incredible things when bureaucrats get off their backs and actually let them teach.

As Australian schools begin to open their doors again, teachers and students are still facing a period of remote education. Unfortunately, the rapid spread of the virus has caught many schools unprepared. While some may already have limited remote learning ...

If you were to ask any teacher if they expected online learning to take off so quickly, they are likely to say that this phenomenon is unlike anything they ever expected to witness. Despite the speed with which the education ...

What happens to our education system after COVID-19? Who knows. Teachers, for one, certainly don’t. Perhaps, that’s the problem with our system.  What we do know is that teachers won’t be left to their own devices – even though we are ...

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning framework needs no introduction to educators. It has been used in schools across Australia for years now to deliver consistent, evidence-based learning outcomes and is the culmination of synthesizing more than 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more ...

Think you’ve got it tough sitting at home watching the news, rationing toilet paper and worrying about the future? Try being a current Queensland year 12 student.  If you are one of the state’s 50,000+ year 12 students, you must ...

Many Australian schools are now experiencing the reality of school closures and remote learning measures for many weeks or even months to come. They will need to assess whether their current infrastructure can support scalable remote earning.                                                                                                           With students ...

When the coronavirus first emerged in China's Wuhan province, local authorities were slow to react and suggestions of a lack of transparency and cover-up by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were widespread. Here, too, in South Australia the Education Minister, ...

Community angst, concern and stockpiling in the wake of COVID-19 hasn’t been pleasant. One positive, however, is a renewed emphasis on good hygiene and how washing your hands can help prevent germs from spreading. We all need to learn and ...

We all have to eat. This fact of life is non-negotiable and it applies to every living creature on earth. Just like every animal and plant, humans require certain survival skills, just like mammals who teach their babies which plants ...