‘Education will be the biggest growth industry of the 21st century,’ according to Pearson, the world’s largest edu-business, which provides educational content, resources and customisable services, such as online and…
Once more we have a government short-changing public education.
My professional interest as an educator is in technology and gamification, so with high expectations I attended the Teacher Tank 2015 last week, a teachmeet pitched to educators who "love…
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Around the world, over 4. 5 million students are undertaking overseas tertiary education.
We are being misled about a key plank of Christopher Pyne’s higher education reforms and, until now, the issue has received little public attention.
Everyone has an opinion on why young people disengage from school. The topic arouses significant comment from politicians, media commentators, teachers, teacher unions and parents.
Children and young people are using services all around us that have been designed for them by grown-ups.
Many teachers are making grassroots attempts to read, use, and generate research these days. Educational researchers love this.
Public discussion on teacher education has reached a depressing new low. A casual flick through current commentary gives the impression that teacher education is stuffed.
Every Australian student deserves a quality education with access to the best teachers and resources. No-one would disagree with this lofty aspiration.
I was dismayed by the announcement that time away from school for family holidays will now be marked as “unjustified” absences in NSW public schools.
The role of the principal today is challenging and complex.
There is a lot of misinformation out there, as well as ill informed commentary, about how we prepare teachers to teach reading and writing in Australian schools today
Of course you…
In the United Kingdom, it is widely documented both in academic circles and in the popular press that white working-class children consistently underperform at school.
The long-awaited report of the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG) was released last week, with the catchy title Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers.