NAPLAN is under fire again. “Outdated” and “inappropriate” are words used to describe the aims of NAPLAN in a recent UNSW study. Many of us parents can relate to the many “negative outcomes” kids experience – like stress and anxiety!  ...

EducationReview · Soft skills key for the careers of tomorrow | Dr Alexia Maddox A new study conducted by Oxford University Press surveyed 1000 recent graduates and found that 88 per cent of them believed “soft skills” were necessary to ...

EducationReview · 'Future proofing' students for the 21st century and how it can be done: Podcast Professor Sandra Milligan from the University of Melbourne and her fellow experts were inspired to write the report 'Future Proofing Students: What they need ...

RMIT is heralding its introduction of Australia's first 'fact-checking' university subject. The course, which will be mandatory for first year BA (Journalism) students, will include the teaching of skills like detecting Photoshopped images, using Google Earth to verify the location ...

As the Mitchell Institute prefaced last month, soft skills, straightforward as they seem, can be difficult to teach. Now, there's further evidence for this. After surveying 500 Australian teachers, Smiling Minds found that two in five of them feel they ...

Citizens of the lucky country can no longer rely on good fortune for prosperity - they must rely on capabilities. This is the premise of a new Mitchell Institute report. "Today the question is not if we should seek to teach young ...

Having grown up the child of two high-achieving professionals and possessing the requisite academics, I commenced a law degree after school. Like the 99 per cent, I wasn't to know that the GFC would hit in 2008 – two years later. ...

"It seems like everywhere we look … there's so much debate about education at the moment." Dr Sunil Badami is right: there's controversy over school funding, teacher standards and preparing students for the future, to name a few areas. The Future ...

A senate inquiry has heard that Gonski funding aside, schools aren't doing enough to prepare students for life. Victoria University's Mitchell Institute Director Megan O'Connell told the inquiry on the future of work that an intense focus on grades has led ...

Educational institutions prioritising teaching skills over knowledge is "seriously fuzzy thinking", says Elizabeth Stone. The principal of Queenwood School for Girls, an independent school in Sydney, presented her views on this at the launch of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. She's right in ...