NSW education officials have no idea how many teachers have been vaccinated, even as preparations continue to bring year 12 students back to Sydney classrooms. Authorities have also revealed they have no clue how many individuals will be out and ...

Colour is the first of six concepts educators can mobilise to enhance young children’s thinking and learning. Often when vocabulary is taught, the second the students can identify something, the teaching stops. So purple is just purple. It is an ...

Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...

The Bondi COVID-19 cluster crippling greater Sydney is threatening to bleed out into the regions of NSW, as two schools in the north of the state shut after positive cases among students. The ongoing lockdown and growing daily cases is ...

A team of mathematics experts have given their support to ACARA’s proposed revised mathematics curriculum, saying primary school teachers and parents can be confident that the F-6 part of the curriculum is largely “on track”.  Executive chairman and founder of ...

Australians could receive their Covid-19 jab at schools, sports stadiums, supermarkets or shopping centres as part of a nationwide blitz to get everyone vaccinated by the end of the year. National Covid vaccine task force co-ordinator Lieutenant General John Frewen ...

Short active breaks during class have been shown to improve a child's brain function and aid learning. New research dismisses the notion that children need to be sat down all day to learn effectively, and short bursts of activity help ...

In multiple meta-analysis and research studies, highly respected education researcher John Hattie (2009, 2018), ranked a range of influences and their effect size on student achievement.  At the top of this list was the student-teacher relationship and the effect of ...

It would be of no surprise that finding and maintaining meaningful employment or study for young people with a disability has not always been a priority in the past.  But with the increased awareness of human rights in the modern ...

Two schools in Sydney have closed due to Covid-19 exposure, including a primary school in the Hills shire. St Bernadette’s Primary Castle Hill was slammed shut after a person who attended the after hours service provided by the school tested ...