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 ...

“Wellbeing, mental health, and psychological safety are the core pre-conditions of learning, performance, healthy functioning, and contributing.” This sentence is as true for adults as it is for children. The more we define these terms the more we build a national ...

A new report on the importance of student wellbeing argues that a student’s social and emotional intelligence is closely tied to their academic outcomes. However, the report, which is based on 27 book chapters, journal articles, reports and surveys, makes ...

EducationReview · What principals can learn from CEOs: Podcast School principals are often characterised by their leadership abilities, educational excellence and ability to meet government requirements through reporting of a range of data. But, according to Eduinfluencers founder and managing ...

EducationReview · Being a school principal during COVID-19 - Podcast They are the leaders of the school – the individuals who are ultimately responsible for the wellbeing of everyone in their school communities. And while the majority of school principals ...

When the coronavirus first emerged in China's Wuhan province, local authorities were slow to react and suggestions of a lack of transparency and cover-up by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were widespread. Here, too, in South Australia the Education Minister, ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement on Sunday night regarding school closures has caused major confusion among principals, teachers, education support staff and parents, according to Australian Education Union (AEU) federal president Correna Haythorpe and the NSW Teachers Federation. She has urged ...

Australian teacher Helen Comerford from Lumen Christi Catholic College in NSW has missed out on the world’s most dedicated teacher award, after being pipped at the post by Columbian teacher Patricia Abril. Abril was born in Bucaramanga, Columbia, and teaches social ...