American teacher Keishia Thorpe was crowned winner of the Global Teacher Prize overnight for her work getting first-generation American kids of immigrant backgrounds into college. The $1 million prize is the largest teaching prize of its kind and is now ...

Well, it’s official. An Australian teacher has once again been named in the top ten in the $1 million Global Teacher Prize, supported by Schools Plus and the Varkey Foundation. The latest news puts Rebecca West, deputy principal and instructional ...

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, ...

A West Australian maths teacher has been shortlisted for an international US$1m prize. Ashley Stewart, from Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury, was named in the top 50 of the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2020, run in partnership ...

Yasodai Selvakumaran, Humanities teacher and Leader in Professional Practice from Sydney’s Rooty Hill High School, has fit a lot into a teaching career that’s barely a decade old. A recipient of the Commonwealth Bank Teaching awards, and finalist in the ...

Australia's Eddie Woo has missed out on the $US1 million ($A1.3 million) Global Teacher Prize. The prize, awarded by the Varkey Foundation at a glittering ceremony in Dubai on Sunday night, was won by British school teacher Andria Zafirakou. Mr ...

NSW teacher Eddie Woo is in the running to be named the best teacher in the world, and will hold the lone torch for Australia in the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2018. The Cherrybrook Technology High School teacher was selected ...