An anti-food waste initiative is providing free, curriculum-centred lesson plans, teacher training and classroom resources to schools willing to teach their students about sustainable food practices. FEAST, a 10-week education program by food rescue organisation OzHarvest, aligns to the years ...

EducationReview · Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow | Dr Alexia Maddox A new study conducted by Oxford University Press surveyed 1000 recent graduates and found that 88 per cent of them believed “soft skills” were necessary to ...

What does MasterChef 2020 have to do with school? More than you'd think. The show's Grand Finale took place the other night, with Emilia and Laura vying for this year's trophy. As I was watching the season, I've noticed some ...

When English and Music teacher Michael Lawrence visited Finnish schools in 2017, many teachers asked him why Australia used a test like NAPLAN to assess students, particularly young ones. For them, education is all about learning, not testing. The ultimate ...

The wisdom of the aphorism ‘you don't fatten a pig by weighing it more’ might have finally dawned on at least three state education ministers. Last month, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria announced a review of NAPLAN, with the ...

It’s time for other learning areas to mooo-ve over: Dairy Australia’s Picasso Cows program is inspiring primary-aged students to think more about the importance of dairy to their diets and where it comes from. Now in its 10th year, the ...

Sir Ken Robinson's 2006 lecture, Do schools kill creativity?, is apparently the most viewed TED Talk of all time. Regardless of that claim's veracity, it has been viewed 50,727,440 times and counting. Clearly, his words resonate. Now, he hopes to recapture audiences' ...

Along with a relatively small number of countries such as New Zealand, Singapore and Finland and Scotland, Australia is unusual in that, as well as a focus on knowledge and skills, its national curriculum explicitly requires schools to teach certain ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. The first two lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 capture the essence of a new study: poetry and nature. Researchers from Curtin University have found that ...

Lee Watanabe Crockett strode onto the EduTECH stage to a track filled with electronic bleeps and loops. Wearing a Steve Jobs-like all black outfit and black-rimmed glasses, he looked and acted the part of a digital change maker. As president ...