I am doing my PhD simply for the pleasure I get out of historical research and writing. I completed a B.A. (Hons) in English and History and a Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Wollongong. In 2005 I ...

I finished as the head of an independent school in Sydney in 2009 and have been involved in school management for the past 20 years in the independent sector. I completed my undergraduate studies and postgraduate studies at Macquarie University ...

I have a very powerful commitment to furthering educational knowledge. After 30 years teaching and being principal, I felt I still had a great deal to discover about teaching and about educational leadership in particular. Indeed, I believed that there ...

After gaining a Bachelor of Psychology, I decided my passion was to work with teenagers. I then completed a Graduate Diploma of Education in 2007 and I have been teaching at Damascus College in Ballarat ever since. A passion for ...

Currently I am the literature coordinator at Methodist Ladies’ College in Perth. As the literature coordinator I plan, write, assess, program and implement the new WACE Literature course in WA. One of the main reasons why I wanted to pursue ...

After four years as sustainability co-ordinator and Year 6 teacher at St Peter’s Primary School in Bentleigh East, I commenced the master of education and reduced my hours to work part time at the school. The part time hours teaching ...

I began teaching in New Zealand, where I trained, in 1982. My first appointment in NSW was in a Western Sydney primary school in a disadvantaged area. From 1987 – 2008 I taught in various schools in Western Sydney Region ...

From the charred remains of the devastating Black Saturday bushfires, Marysville Primary School stands rebuilt - nearly two years on - as a modern, 21st Century learning hub. The state-of-the-art design has profoundly challenged the school’s modest rural identity and ...

My suggestion that we rethink support classes and the number and range of special schools when interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald recently was met with dismay by some who are concerned that this could reduce “choice” for students with ...

I can hardly bear to watch free-to-air television any more. Everything has been reduced to a competition. Cooking, dancing, singing, surviving – even living in a house. The whole world has been divided into winners and losers, and this will ...