As NSW students prepare for a staggered approach back to the classroom, Education Review spoke to the president of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos, about how well prepared the public sector is for the final school term. ...
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Dozens of Covid-19 infections uncovered among Victorian VCE students
Dozens of infectious VCE students have narrowly avoided passing Covid-19 onto their fellow senior students, after a testing blitz picked up the virus in would-be GAT sitters. Deputy Premier James Merlino confirmed 33 students would not be able to sit ...
More »New survey shows high levels of trust for teachers in Aussie schools
Confidence and trust in teachers continues to grow as a new survey found that 72 per cent of people trusted that teachers' work was in the best interests of students. As the pandemic has forced remote learning on many families ...
More »The importance of classroom ventilation beyond the pandemic – podcast
As NSW students prepare for a staged return to school around mid-October, concerns have been expressed about the lack of air purification systems in NSW classrooms as well as the absence of CO2 monitors to check air quality. However, there ...
More »World Teacher’s Day special: preparing pre-service teachers for a post-COVID classroom
As we celebrate another World Teacher's Day, it is fair to say that the global pandemic has been unlike anything we have experienced collectively as teachers before. It has created pressure in the mass adoption of remote learning, and exposed ...
More »What Finland can teach Australian education about teacher autonomy, retention: opinion
With all the talk about a teacher shortage, and the fact that some 50 per cent of the country’s qualified teachers are no longer in the profession, I’ve found myself reflecting on the reasons for this astonishing figure and what ...
More »Why language learning requires more than an app
Apps for learning another language have become extremely popular in the age of self-directed and tech-mediated learning, with learners being promised they can attain fluency in their chosen language quickly if they follow simple app instructions. Some of these instructions ...
More »From disaster to distinction: one Indigenous woman’s education journey
Carmel Debel can remember the time her mother tried to enrol her and her brothers in the local primary school. It was back in 1990, when she was seven, and when the administration staff and principal saw her mum standing ...
More »In debates about opening schools, we’re neglecting an important voice: our children’s
European countries have been asked to focus on “ensuring the right of children to be involved in all decisions that affect them”, in a newly released report ahead of the school year in Europe. The report — from the “High-level ...
More »Scathing billboard parked outside Knox Grammar
A billboard truck with the message “you will not silence our pain” was parked outside a Sydney private school after a judge quashed a man’s conviction for punching a woman and calling her a “sl*t”. Knox Grammar graduate Nick Drummond successfully appealed ...
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