Education
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Free phonics check finally rolls out for Year 1 students
South Australian Minister for Education John Gardner said that a renewed focus on phonics was helping to lift literacy outcomes…
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TAFE versus private providers: Union backlash to VET funding
The Productivity Commission review into skills and workforce development is failing to ensure the public TAFE system's future as the…
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Secondary school textbooks teach our kids the myth that Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gatherers
It’s difficult to understand why a contemporary publisher of school textbooks would publish misleading or incorrect material. However, we do…
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‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education
Overwhelmingly, teachers from early childhood to higher education experienced a significant increase in their workload. One teacher said the sudden…
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Victoria’s Year 12 students are learning remotely. But they won’t necessarily fall behind
Will remote learning at the end of schooling mean Victorian students will fall behind the rest of the country?
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Schools and COVID: Rethinking educational ethics during a pandemic
One suggestion can be to “Marie Kondo the curriculum” – that is, focus on vital topics that bring joy, especially…
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We know by Year 11 what mark students will get in Year 12. Do we still need a stressful exam?
A new Year 12 design: we propose to dramatically revise Year 12 with the help of predictive analytics.
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Why governments must recognise the importance of an arts-based education
Music and the arts provide ways for non-English-speaking and refugee students to succeed in the Australian school system, and unite…
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Gov confirms 90% of teaching students met literacy and numeracy standard benchmarks in 2019
The Federal Government is consulting through Education Council to secure state and territory government support for the release of more…
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Students in Melbourne will go back to remote schooling. Here’s what we learnt last time and how to make it better
Around the same number of teachers said the remote learning period had a positive (33%), negative (36%) or neither positive…
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