It wasn’t long ago that schools were still using blackboards. Data projectors, whiteboards and interactive whiteboards have all been developed since. Laptops and tablets are just another step along. The recent technology bans in a handful of Sydney schools appear to ...

It’s her manifesto on everything wrong with Australia’s education system. In Lucy Clark’s nonfiction book Beautiful Failures, she examines “how the quest for success is harming our kids”. Clark says the intense pressures and stresses of high school led to ...

With federal Labor pledging $393 million to train 25,000 specialist STEM teachers, its Victorian state counterpart has already allocated $27 million to train these teachers – via a program to be rolled out through Deakin University. The Victorian education minister, ...

Some parents may now want their kids playing more video games. Well one game anyway. The federally funded National Acoustics Laboratory (NAL) has developed "Sound Storm", a game app that it says improves the listening ability of children with spatial processing disorder. ...

Excellent teachers need to be recognised for their work and for their strengths in various areas, but not with performance pay, the dean of one of Australia’s top teacher schools has argued. Melbourne Graduate School of Education professor Field Rickards said good ...

One of the leaders behind a program mentoring high school students from refugee backgrounds is marking this year’s World Refugee Week by calling for those on temporary protection visas and asylum seekers to be eligible for federal government assistance to meet ...

Australia is not alone in analysing its school education system and questioning its future directions based on national and international test results. Over the past few years, I have been a member of two OECD review teams that have examined ...

This week on Talking Eds, the team behind Education Review, Campus Review and Early Learning Review discuss ways to attract and retain girls and women in STEM subjects and the disparity between lucky and unlucky young Australians. We also go manic for words in celebration ...

In its long list of recommendations to the next federal government, the Grattan Institute is calling for tougher entry standards into teacher education. Grattan school education program director Peter Goss estimated there has been roughly one review every year, for 40 ...

"They’re never going to do well on NAPLAN or any other goddamned level of academic excellence, but they still matter.” That’s Maggie Dent, a former high school English teacher – now an author and parenting specialist – calling on teachers, ...