Deciding if a child is ready for school can cause some anxiety for parents, especially if their birthday makes them a particularly young starter. In many cases, spending an hour or so in the classroom with a new teacher simply ...

Two separate incidents of anti-Semitic bullying within Victorian schools have sent deep tremors of disturbance through the education system and wider community. In one case, under threat of violence, a Year 7 student at Cheltenham Secondary College was made to ...

The Victorian state government has committed funding to bring more high-quality teachers to low socioeconomic areas, many of which are in regional and remote areas of the state. Not-for-profit organisation Teach For Australia (TFA) – which also runs programs in ...

It’s not often a book comes along that encapsulates the myriad ways in which Australia’s school system has changed since its inception during the colonial era. But Alan Reid’s new book, Changing Australian Education: How policy is taking us backwards and ...

The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow, so we really should be doing everything we can to foster positive and meaningful learning encounters. Part of this is encouraging partnerships with local community members who may be able to ...

When immigrant families arrive in Australia, they will often find a whole new world of educational opportunity for their children. Yet with increased opportunities can come increased expectations.  At the same time, an unfamiliar educational system can be tricky to ...

John Marsden is best known for his top-selling Tomorrow When the War Began YA series, in which a group of young people find themselves suddenly in a war zone without the protections of the adults or institutions they've relied upon ...

Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...

This year’s Education Week theme is 'Every student, every voice'. This week is the perfect time to step back and reflect on how we can help strengthen our pupils’ voices, and consider why it’s so critical to do so. Helping ...

Students moving from primary classrooms to a secondary timetable suffer from a kind of culture shock when their expectations of school are radically challenged by the pace and siloed structures of faculty education. Students may find school overwhelming, disorienting and ...