I believe the most important outcomes of education for children today are the enhancement of their individual intelligence and the enrichment of their creative capacity.
Popular media erupted this week around the use of naughty corners in Australian classrooms.
Christopher Pyne is embarking on his own education revolution. He wants our nation’s teachers to use a teaching method called Direct Instruction.
Australian schools are not out of control and violent behaviour in Australian classrooms is not common.
The key to it all is Rosebud. I don’t refer to Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, whose enigmatic protagonist dies with that mysterious word on his lips.
Politicians of all persuasions use the language of panic and crisis to whip up fear about the ‘quality’ of teachers, and their teaching.
Australian educational researchers continually produce world leading research findings that challenge the way we do things in schools and the way we approach schooling issues.
It is good news for many of us involved in higher education that the radical changes to higher education proposed by Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, might not make it through…
It appears that many high achieving students are shunning a teaching career these days.
Money spent on reducing class sizes has not been wasted as Education Minister Christopher Pyne believes. The advice he has been given is wrong.
Lecturer in secondary English curriculum in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology
One cohort at a time, I am doing my bit to erase the misleading, poorly defined,…
Education portfolio
More opportunity and competition in higher education
Tuesday 13 May 2014 Media Release
The Hon Christopher Pyne MP
Minister for Education
Leader of the House
More than 80,000 students will benefit for…
Our future economic growth, prosperity and wellbeing depend on what we do now as a nation. And anything we do should be based on research-evidence.
We need debate around much needed change in higher education.
Professor in education, University of South Australia. Constantly weighing a pig does not make it fatter, nor does constantly testing children make them smarter.