Ahead of the start of annual NAPLAN testing, education experts have commented on the test to point out its flaws and advantages. From today until 20 May, more than 1.2 million Australian students across 9500 schools will be taking the ...

In the shadows of last year’s teacher strike in New South Wales, a number of people asked me how the Finnish education system would deal with the issues causing dissatisfaction for Australian teachers. It is an excellent question. It is ...

Today, being Public Education Day, is an opportunity to acknowledge the critical role that public schools, preschools and TAFEs play in strengthening the social, economic and cultural fabric of Australian society. The Australian Education Union (AEU) believes that “free, public ...

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 ...

Students aren't as empathetic as they once were and have less ability to focus. Those were some of the findings from the Gonski Institute’s Growing Up Digital report. The group surveyed almost 2000 teachers and school leaders across Australia and ...

Professor Pasi Sahlberg began his presentation at EduTECH 2019 by asking the rhetorical question "what do you do with a sick child?" Taking them to the doctor was the obvious reply. "So you can be very confident that whatever the ...

One skill Australian educators need to give more attention to is better communicating the strengths and wisdom of their profession to the wider community. That’s the view of Professor Pasi Sahlberg, speaking at a roundtable discussion on the content versus ...

Australia should scrap the current census approach of NAPLAN and replace it with sample testing of students, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has been told. In its submission to COAG's review of NAPLAN, the Gonski Institute for Education at ...