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In 1990 it was called “education’s dirty little secret”.
Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of South Australia   Commissioning a review of the national curriculum and then installing a known critic of that curriculum, Kevin Donnelly,…
Does the Australian Government want to give all Australian children every opportunity to get the best education? There is only one answer to that question and it was the guiding principle…
Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Australia One of the chilling features of the Federal Government’s education policy is its obvious intention to tell teachers how they should…
The employability of international graduates has emerged as a key challenge facing the Australian higher education sector.
If you’ve carried out any kind of empirical social research or fieldwork for which you had to obtain research ethics  committee approval, chances are you ended up encountering ethical challenges…
Much has been said in the media in the past week or so about teacher quality prompted by government announcements about new measures for regulating those who study in teacher…
Last week on Radio National, Shadow Education Minister Christopher Pyne gave us a glimpse of the Coalition’s vision for education should the Coalition win government.