The expanded disciplinary powers Queensland principals were recently granted are harmful and failing against their intended aim, an expert has argued. Professor Linda Graham, a researcher in inclusive education at the Queensland University of Technology, critiqued the 2014 decision by ...

President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has signalled his intention to further deforest the Amazon. In a campaign speech last year, he vowed to reclaim indigenous land – much of which lies within the largest rainforest in the world – for the "wealth ...

Charles Sturt University (CSU) has updated their hugely successful and internationally recognised Master of Education with three new specialisations as part of a recent review of postgraduate education courses. The Master of Education is designed for education professionals looking to ...

I have been worried for some time about the concept of equity and how it is usually understood in relation to schooling. It seems to me to be very strange that family income, as one indicator, can determine how children ...

As the Mitchell Institute prefaced last month, soft skills, straightforward as they seem, can be difficult to teach. Now, there's further evidence for this. After surveying 500 Australian teachers, Smiling Minds found that two in five of them feel they ...

This year, the international journal Autism replaced its cover art of overlapping grey and red puzzle pieces with scattered circles, after a team of editors decided that puzzles evoked negative connotations of the disorder. Yet autism is puzzling: we still don't even know what causes it. Autism assumptions ...

Leaders in education have individually benefitted from using social media for their school. Educators can derive a myriad of benefits for themselves and their schools by successfully leveraging the power of social media. For schools, it is a powerful communication ...

Teachers looking to lift the non-cognitive skills of students need to be informed “buyers” of interventions making strong claims about effectiveness, researchers have warned. That’s because their review of the literature on effects of non-cognitive skills in children aged 12 ...

Math trauma, the issue highlighted in the US edition of The Conversation, is real. If a student never masters irrational numbers then when they come to trigonometry (which involves lots of irrational numbers) they will receive a constant bombardment of ...

The most passionate teachers are also enthusiastic learners; not content to let their practice become stale and always looking for ways to improve the outcomes of their students. Professional development is so important for these teachers who actively look forward ...