Creative writing is undervalued in schools, a professor of teacher education at the University of Sydney has said. Professor Robyn Ewing said the implementation of high-stakes standardised testing throughout schools, such as NAPLAN, has led to storytelling and creative writing not being ...

Students, teachers and even education ministers are being asked to reflect on their experiences with starting school in a Charles Sturt University research project. Pedagogies of Educational Transitions (POET) – an international research collaboration CSU is part of – is asking people ...

You can’t bluff it. That was the key advice an award-winning secondary school instructor gave  to teaching students. Evangelos Polymeneas, from South Australia’s Salisbury High School and an Australian Scholarship Group National Excellence in Teaching Awards recipient, is mentoring education students ...

The Australian Education Union has hit back against claims that it dictates New South Wales teacher education policy to limit the number of incoming teachers for the benefit of its existing members. Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor professor Greg Craven previously told Education Review ...

A large falling tree branch which fatally crushed a NSW primary schooler as she walked across the playground should have already been removed, an inquest has been told. However, the principal of Sydney's Pitt Town Public School wasn't aware of ...

A new study into autism has given insight into how the condition causes social difficulties. It’s generally accepted social and communication difficulties are the core element of autism, though the causes behind these difficulties are largely unknown. Research from the ...

Pope Francis has sent “the Lord’s abundant blessings” to an Independent Education Union teacher conference on environmental sustainability. In response to Pope Francis’s Papal Encyclical on climate change, the IEU wrote to the Vatican expressing its support for the Pope’s stance ...

As students sit their end of year exams, Bond University has released the findings of a study that suggests a simple solution to tackling test anxiety. Dr Peta Stapleton, Bond clinical psychologist, has found the use of Emotional Freedom Techniques – rapidly ...