The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO's) theme for this World Teachers' Day, celebrated on October 5, is Valuing teacher voices: towards a new social contract for education. UNESCO says the theme acknowledges that teachers are experts in ...

Researchers from Monash University have surveyed 1000 primary and secondary teachers across the country and their results reveal what health and wellbeing measures educators consider essential at work. Its findings are a bid to contribute towards solving the teacher shortage ...

An organisation that claims they have the answers to tackling student wellbeing issues and mental health challenges in schools is calling on the government to implement a nation-wide rollout of its strategies. Schools Plus partners with predominantly low-SES schools each ...

More than 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is playing a role in addressing Australia’s teacher crisis. Following its success in nurturing teachers from regional and remote schools around the country, national theatre company Bell Shakespeare has expanded its Regional Teacher ...

A 2023 program funded by the federal government's Emerging Priorities initiative saw teachers save an average of 94 hours each in lesson planning time this year. The grant program was established in 2021 to fund projects that assist school communities ...

An Australian Education Union (AEU) 2023 poll found that public school teachers fork out a combined $159.5m a year to buy classroom supplies vital to education due to the underfunding of public schools by governments. The September results said 85 ...

The Minns government's first NSW state budget released on Tuesday put essential workers at its forefront, allocating $9.8 billion to the public education system to focus on upgrading schools and getting rid of the wages cap to tackle the understaffed ...

The first public hearing for an inquiry into the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the Australian education system was held in Canberra at Parliament House on Wednesday, and is to be the first of many to decipher AI's ...

Teachers should try to check in and engage with their colleagues to help keep their stress levels at bay during NAPLAN season, an education expert has said. On Wednesday, more than 1.3 million students nationwide will sit the NAPLAN test. ...

More than 90 per cent of Australian teachers saw their stress levels increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, driving educators away from the job.  A recent study carried out in collaboration between La Trobe University and Swinburne University of Technology revealed ...