While the federal government has endorsed a phonics check for Year 1 students, one researcher has warned that the check should not overextend its reach. Dr Jennifer Buckingham, an education researcher from the Centre of Independent Studies, recently completed a report ...

Future teachers could be required to have some skills similar to data scientists, as they’ll use such numbers to personalise learning, a Microsoft executive has said. Ray Fleming, Microsoft Australia’s education industry development manager, said there is potential for schools ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at the history and effect of White Ribbon Day, discuss the University of Sydney's expansion in China and explore Torrens University's new ...

Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...

The Victorian Government has unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to base ...

Technology products are permeating today’s classrooms, and a group of students got to meet one of the brains behind it all. Two classes of students from Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt Campus met with Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella to showcase ...

When a learning program kicks off with a breakdancing performance and a balloon dinosaur, it’s likely to be a little different. That’s what marked the opening of the Sydney Opera House’s 2017 Kids, Families and Creative Learning program earlier this ...

The social exclusion of the elderly, global warming, and the real-life implications of xenophobic political ideologies are just some of the weighty issues Year 6 students at Sydney’s Trinity Grammar School have covered over the past year. And earlier in November, ...

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham has indicated he will push for school teaching methods to become more evidence-based. Birmingham said at the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit that “I would like, as education minister, to see us, over time, ...

Mick Grimley is the dean of education at Torrens University, which has recently introduced a Graduate Certificate in Education (Autism), specifically for teachers and other professionals who work with children with autism. Some of the stated objectives of this course are ...