EducationReview · Academic slams LANTITE report as 'flawed' | Dr David Zyngier Before an internal government report recently revealed that the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was causing significant concern among pre-service teachers and universities, nine ...

A senate committee report has recommended the government’s job-ready graduates bill be passed with the contingency that it is reviewed after two years.  The committee’s chair, Liberal senator James McGrath, wrote that the bill will “deliver policy and funding certainty for the sector”.  But Greens senator ...

Research conducted by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) has concluded that 1.25 million Australian children fell behind in learning because of the COVID-19 school closures. The paper, Parents’ perspectives on home-based learning in the covid-19 pandemic, covers a wide-range ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has responded to the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) report on worldwide education indicators, saying Australia’s poor ranking in several areas reflects inadequate government funding policies. These indicators include resource equity, staffing, and ...

After healthcare workers like paramedics and nurses, Australians want primary school teachers to be next in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab. That was one of the findings of an Australian National University survey that sought out attitudes of ...

An internal government report has called for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to be held at the beginning of education degrees, so students aren’t potentially wasting their time. In comes after revelations that almost one ...

If you’ve ever been part of education circles in the Northern Territory, the name Adam Voigt is widely recognisable. Having spent a lot of his professional life teaching there, he worked at a range of schools and became a well-respected ...

The NSW Government will relax restrictions around weddings, school and community sport after the state announced its third day without community transmission of coronavirus. Only one case was diagnosed up to 8pm on Wednesday – a returned traveller in hotel quarantine. As ...

A muck-up day scavenger hunt devised by students at a Sydney private school has made headlines due to the string of illegal tasks it challenged revellers to complete. The list, created by Year 12 students at Shore School in North ...

Understanding the importance of motivation in education has never been more significant than now. Studies have shown that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation directly correlates with an improvement in students’ academic performance and grades. However, the current educational discord as ...