Despite efforts of successive cabinets, the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous outcomes has yet to be closed. Prime Minister Scott Morrison hopes a new plan will at least reduce it educationally. Unveiled today, it entails waiving the HECS debts of 3,100 ...

Graduates from accredited teaching courses will be required to pass literacy and numeracy tests before they can enter the profession this year. Potential teachers will have three attempts at passing the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) ...

The reality of schools (for as many years as I have worked in education) is that teachers, Principals, and school staff more broadly run the gauntlet each term at frenetic pace, often collapsing physically and emotionally at the finish line. ...

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In recent years, there has been ongoing discussion about whether mainstream primary and high school teachers are sufficiently prepared to fully implement the language components of the Australian Curriculum. Over the past decades, educators have successfully delivered the functional genre ...

Charles Sturt University (CSU) has updated their hugely successful and internationally recognised Master of Education with three new specialisations as part of a recent review of postgraduate education courses. The Master of Education is designed for education professionals looking to ...

As the Mitchell Institute prefaced last month, soft skills, straightforward as they seem, can be difficult to teach. Now, there’s further evidence for this. After surveying 500 Australian teachers, Smiling Minds found that two in five of them feel they ...

Amid reignited political, charitable and medical calls for asylum-seeking children to be transported from Nauru to Australia are educational ones. The Australian Education Union (AEU) is emphatic about it: they are calling for transportation of children and their families “as ...

Around the country, Term Four is approaching. Ask any teacher if this period is stressful, and they’ll likely resoundingly reply “yes”. So, if media reports, including ours (and more suspect examples), as well as journal articles are to be believed, 20 to 50 ...

Tony Parker, a former high school geography teacher, isn’t allowed to fully share his story of being bullied.† Legally, he is prevented from doing so. That’s not, however, the kind of silencing he and his peers, Peter Anderson and Kathy Simpson, are aggrieved ...