Rising cases of Covid-19 and influenza have prompted schools to return to online learning, and experts worry it will further widen the learning gap with migrant children. The past months have seen Australia being hit by both Covid-19 and influenza ...

One of Melbourne’s most prestigious colleges is seeking to become the state’s first private online school under an ambitious new venture called Haileybury Pangea. Elite private school Haileybury, which already has four campuses across Melbourne and a site in Darwin, ...

Covid is still impacting Australian kids, with over a third of parents feeling their child’s academic performance and mental wellbeing has suffered according to a new report. The concerns come after kids have been stuck in lockdown and learning from ...

Schools around Australia have been stricken by the latest surge in Covid-19, forcing classes to close or operate with minimal staff. For the past two weeks, at least 25 per cent of NSW public school students and teachers have been ...

One of the many strengths of effective school leaders is their ability to calmly navigate uncertain and unstable times. The pandemic is a disruption that has tested us all with different challenges every day. It has forced our education system ...

Across the country, states and schools are in varying degrees of lockdown learning and as we are well into this second wave, what are the lessons we have learnt from Home-learning 2.0? For starters, many parents still feel underprepared and ...

A Victorian principal who allegedly encouraged students to attend school despite lockdown restrictions has been slammed as “irresponsible”. Visibly angry Education Minister James Merlino tore into Fitzroy Community School principal Timothy Berryman on Tuesday after an outbreak at the independent ...

Laureate professor at the University of Melbourne John Hattie presented a paper last month to the Victoria Education State Principals Conference, highlighting the effect of remote learning on school communities. Hattie's presentation focused on a number of topics, including the ...

In multiple meta-analysis and research studies, highly respected education researcher John Hattie (2009, 2018), ranked a range of influences and their effect size on student achievement.  At the top of this list was the student-teacher relationship and the effect of ...

With Sydney schools moving to home learning once again, and COVID-19’s highly contagious Delta strain making the possibility of other states following in the coming weeks, jaded teachers must adapt their lessons for online delivery. For many teachers, this means ...