After falling into teaching when his original career plans stalled, this Adelaide principal set out to make his mark in education. A dynamic, visionary and authentic Catholic school leader who is passionate about leading contemporary educational change, informed by research, ...

When Greg McMahon became principal of Doveton College in 2015, things were tough. The school, situated in Melbourne’s southeast – one of Victoria’s poorest areas – had poor attendance rates and its students scored low grades. Once buoyed by manufacturing, its ...

Today, ACARA cautiously released newly user-friendly 2018 MySchool data, revealing, among other things, individual schools’ 2017 NAPLAN performances. “We know that schools are more than just their NAPLAN results. However, literacy and numeracy are the fundamental skills all our children ...

Australian principals are burnt out and embroiled in conflict, yet somehow still love their jobs. This was revealed in the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education’s seventh annual Australian Principals Health and Wellbeing Survey Report, released today. To date, around half of all principals ...

Today’s school students likely don’t have any living relatives who survived World War Two. If they’re undertaking the International Baccalaureate (IB), however, they may do well to know its postwar origins. In 1948, Marie-Thérèse Maurette, a French educator, was stationed in ...

West Australian Liz Smith is a 21st century educator who very much has the future in mind – for both staff and students – when leading her school’s teaching and learning. She began her teaching career on the cusp of ...

It’s a true rags to intellectual riches tale. Murat Dizdar, the son of Turkish immigrants, grew up in in a monolithic housing commission block in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe. He attended the elite selective public high school, Fort Street, which ...

What do our three most recent male Prime Ministers – Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd – have in common? Certainly not much of their politics.  They all did, however, at one point or another, attend single-sex schools: Sydney ...

Australia’s education sector is under fire, having recently ranked 39 out of 41 countries from the European Union and OECD when it comes to a quality education for children. With education being Australia’s fourth-largest export earner, it is essential for ...

From 2015 to 2016, there was a 41 per cent increase in school incidents. This growing number of emergency situations has prompted a rethink of how educators respond to and communicate in a crisis. In the event of a natural ...