If there is a one-word answer to the often-posed question, 'What is the one thing that’s most different about the Finnish system?', it is trust. As I led a tour group through Finnish schools, a number of the group were ...
More »New survey shows high levels of trust for teachers in Aussie schools
Confidence and trust in teachers continues to grow as a new survey found that 72 per cent of people trusted that teachers' work was in the best interests of students. As the pandemic has forced remote learning on many families ...
More »Being media-minded: why the education sector needs good PR
Trust in educational institutions is in deficit. From the boardroom mismanagement of private and independent schools to the revelations of the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, parents of students and the surrounding community have become wary about the staff ...
More »Study suggests need for greater media literacy
Although, in a given day, 80 per cent of children consumed news from at least one source, only 16 per cent of this cohort had learnt how to interpret this material at school over the past year. That's just one finding from the ...
More »Australians trust school teachers more than ever
Teachers may be flustered by the advent of the My School website, showing individual schools' NAPLAN scores, but perhaps they needn't be. A Roy Morgan Research survey has revealed they are the fourth most trusted professionals in Australia. The market ...
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