The recent Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers (HALT) Summit in Darwin highlighted the amazing work and impact being made by teachers around Australia. But for me, it also highlighted a slightly disappointing aspect of the HALT initiative. Almost a decade ...

Teachers are well known for all the support and guidance they provide students as they transition into the real world, but who’s there to support and guide the teachers? Well, one Australian university has thought long and hard about this ...

The quality of Australia’s trainee teachers is again under fire, with one in 10 failing the literacy and numeracy test required to teach. The Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) is a federal initiative and was created ...

The Bachelor of Education with Professional Honours course at the University of Tasmania provides working teachers with enhanced skills and a greater edge in the job market. The degree is taken entirely online, with flexible study options designed to be ...

Reconciliation Week is a special time. It provides an opportunity to both think about what still needs to change in Indigenous Australians’ lives and also celebrate what has been achieved. Nicole Wade’s story belongs in the latter. The school principal, ...

School wellbeing is not: Compulsory yoga – when a teacher wants to sleep 💤 Cakes in the staffroom – when a teacher isn’t hungry 🍰 “Don’t do any work on the wknd” – when if a teacher doesnt, they’ll be ...

Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

New South Wales Education Minister Rob Stokes has warned students and teachers will be punished if they follow through on a climate rally during class time, scheduled for 15 March. https://t.co/2yPT0QpRVu — Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) February 18, 2019 Ok. ...

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) ...