Australia's longest-running teacher recognition program, the National Excellence in Teaching Awards (NEiTA), is now accepting nominations. Teachers are encouraged to nominate their deserving colleagues, while principals, students, and parents are also welcome to submit nominations. NEiTA is supported by Futurity ...

Student teachers are increasingly being called on to lead classes before they are fully qualified as principals struggle to recruit experienced staff. The number of exemptions allowing university students to work in public and private schools before they have finished ...

Staff at one of Melbourne’s most prestigious girls’ schools could go on strike over stalled talks about working hours and pay, the Herald Sun has revealed. Teachers and teacher aides from Strathcona Girls’ Grammar have been granted the right by the ...

The federal government has awarded 1,000 more scholarships to teaching students in round two of its Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program. The program is a key initiative of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan and aims to attract and support the ...

Australian classrooms will be short more than 4000 educators in 2025, education leaders warn. Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian branch president Meredith Peace said schools would fail to fill thousands of public school teaching spots, with the latest data showing ...

In the 1960s, when the real post-war revolution in education began, teachers believed they were helping transform schools from traditional teacher-centred approaches to child-centred approaches.  From learning by rote and repetition to learning by doing. Teachers of that era were changing the student ...

There is no doubt that we live in challenging times. Our era has been labelled by some as ‘post-truth’, implying that truth is irrelevant where appeals to emotion and personal belief override evidence and objective facts. A post-truth world is ...

A new study has exposed the under-researched "silent cost" of educating students who are going through trauma at home that enters the school gates. A survey of 2285 educators and school staff has investigated the impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress ...

New Department of Education figures show teaching students are dropping out of university at an increasing rate as the minister moves to improve initial teacher education (ITE) through university curriculums and guidelines. A report that analysed the department's most recent ...

Graduate teachers in NSW will earn $102,335 next year after the union negotiated a new wage rise of 10 per cent over three years during stopped class time on Monday. It will make NSW the first state with graduate teachers earning a six ...