Joint research between the Australian College of Educators and Futurity Group has found that 84 per cent of teachers surveyed have considered leaving the profession in the past year.  Futurity Group funds the NEiTA  Foundation, which is responsible for the ...

The past 100 or so days for many educators around Australia have been challenging. Whilst many have enjoyed the benefits of a slower home life and more manageable commute, for others, working away from school, students and colleagues has had ...

When it comes to choosing the right home loan, it can be difficult to know where to start! There are more options available than ever before, each with benefits that can give you added flexibility, or help you to pay ...

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 ...

Reflective practice has been adopted by teachers for many years to ensure that they are meeting the needs of students. It helps teachers understand their personal areas of development and addresses underlying beliefs and assumptions about learning and teaching in ...

Two Australian teachers have made the top 50 shortlist for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2021, a competition that received more than 8,000 nominations and applications this year from 121 countries.  Rebecca West, deputy principal at Bonnyrigg Public School, ...

Christian Education Ministries (CEM) has formed a new partnership with Alphacrucis College in Sydney to provide the next generation of teachers with paid on-the-job training. The new program, which will begin in January next year, will enable eligible candidates to ...

In late 2020, the only undergraduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program in Australia purposefully designed to recruit and upskill industry-experienced tradespeople and technologies experts to become Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Product Design and Technologies secondary school teachers closed ...

Four school tutoring providers have been selected by the NSW government to roll out a $337 million “tutoring in schools” program across the state to target high-priority schools. The Tutoring in High-Priority Schools program is expected to commence in Term ...

This year Velisha Farms, a Weribee horticulture business, has started up a program for local primary school students to learn the “tricks of the agriculture trade”.  The program is described as “hands-on” and covers the full gamut of the agricultural ...