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Teachers and students are being encouraged to think about how they can improve school facilities for students with disabilities or special needs, with round two of funding now open under the Inclusive Schools Fund.

Teaching is a taxing profession, with sustained mental and emotional energy expended all day. Teachers know they work hard, and they know they need some balanced nutrition to get them through day, but with 70 plus hour work weeks, that often seems hard to achieve.

Professor Field Rickards is the Dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE). He began his career as an audiologist, and then lectured in audiology, before applying his clinical approach to education. Lecturers from MGSE appeared in the ABC documentary, Revolution School, as both academic advisor and mentors to the teaching staff of Kambrya College.

With 60 percent of students from a refugee background, and 88 percent with English as their second language, Holroyd High is a joyfully tolerant multicultural environment, where students from diverse backgrounds feel safe, accepted and supported.

The Tasmanian State Government is proposing to lower the compulsory school starting age by six months, from five years to four years and six months, and not everybody is in favour of the move.

John Marsden is a prolific Australian author, teacher and principal of Candlebark School. His experiences, and views on education inspired him to create an alternative to traditional schooling, though he says it’s not the ‘utopia’ some expect.

With pressures of resourcing, employer expectations and financial management on the up for the modern school principal, is there a need for business training?

What would happen if parents were engaged as true partners in an alliance to support their child’s reading? Dr Jayne Jackson, lecturer at Massey University, found out…

The Finnish education system is coveted by teachers, parents and informed students all over the world. After introducing reforms more than 40 years ago, Finland’s education system has been characterised by a teaching profession that is harder to enter than medicine.

Earlier this year, a top performing NSW school, Sydney Grammar School, banned laptops in the classroom. Principal John Vallance views the technology as distracting, and diverting from old-school methods and quality teaching.