Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...

The NSW Employee Performance and Conduct unit (EPAC) was under siege this week with critics of the government unit calling it “opaque”, “slow” and “lacking procedural fairness”. The unit, which investigates misconduct in schools, has also been accused of using ...

Sector politics has long plagued school funding. But with the federal government’s announcement of an extra $4.571 billion for independent schools, partisan outrage has peaked. There’s even intra-party vexation. (Liberal) NSW Education Minster Rob Stokes told ABC Radio Sydney that it’s “not fair” ...

Mea culpa. That’s how Wentworth by-election candidate Dave Sharma signed off on an apology tweet for comments he made in the Sydney Morning Herald a few months ago. In an opinion piece for the publication, the Liberal Party candidate for ...

Tony Parker, a former high school geography teacher, isn’t allowed to fully share his story of being bullied.† Legally, he is prevented from doing so. That’s not, however, the kind of silencing he and his peers, Peter Anderson and Kathy Simpson, are aggrieved ...

How would schools fare under a Peter Dutton-led government? According to the NSW Teachers Federation, they couldn’t do much worse than the status quo. The union is using the battle for leadership of the Liberal party to highlight one of ...