The draft Australian Curriculums (history) was front and centre at the education minister’s final meeting for 2021, following a speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), titled ‘Reforming Australia's Schools’, presented last month. In the speech, education minister Alan Tudge ...

That time of the year has arrived when Year 12 students across the country are commencing or about to begin their end-of-year exams.  While some Year 12 students have been impacted heavily by the disruptions and remote learning of 2020 ...

As students in New South Wales and Victoria have been studying remotely for months, and pupils from other states and territories experienced smaller, often one-off disruptions,  a group of experts have come together to share ideas about how best to ...

New research has refuted the common stereotype that schoolboys prefer reading non-fiction, magazines and comics instead of fiction in a finding that is being touted as “significant” and “unexpected”.  The study, which included 300 students aged from seven to eight ...

The Media Centre for Education Research Australia (MCERA) has created a weekly series that asks educational experts to address some of the most pertinent issues affecting education in the time of COVID-19. MCERA believes it’s critical that educators learn something ...

The cancellation of the upcoming National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy test (the first time this has happened since its inception over a decade ago), has provided education experts with the opportunity to get together to answer some big ...

While the act of reading anything has long been encouraged, a study of 43,000 Spanish students has concluded that it is the quality of the reading material that really matters. Conducted by the University of Malaga and University College London ...

A report tabled in parliament last week on the status of the teaching profession has been heavily criticised by teaching experts, with one calling it a “missed opportunity”. The report was prepared by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

It’s commonly known that teaching is a feminised profession, particularly in the primary years. In fact, a University of Tasmania study found that male teachers accounted for a mere 18.26 per cent of primary school teachers, down from 30.24 per ...

Parental discontent was a theme that emerged last week when education ministers met at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to discuss both NAPLAN and mobile phone bans during school times, a move already planned for primary and secondary state ...