If Australian schools are to fully prepare their students for life beyond their campus gates, we need to resist the lure of repeating previous practice - of photocopying last year’s test sheet - and instead design assessments that demand performance in the skills of the future.
Assessment is the mission statement of learning. The content and method through which students are assessed on their knowledge and ...
The Government has handed down its response to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s growing crisis of school refusal, and some say it’s left families impacted by the problem without much hope.
The UK’s ‘Behaviour Tsar’ Tom Bennett has taken aim at ‘armchair voyeurs’ who boldly advocate for no suspensions or expulsions in primary schools.
Western Australia’s public primary and high school teachers are poised to take strike action next week over their pay and work conditions.
An inaugural Ocean Youth Summit has brought together hundreds of young Australians for two days of learning, connecting, and being inspired to champion the cause of ocean conservation.
Every year, thousands of children and adolescents aged 0–18 across Australia present to an emergency department (ED) or are hospitalised for an injury or poisoning incident. Injury hospitalisations are the third leading contributor to the burden o...
The Australia Institute is recommending that private schools have stricter reporting requirements, greater transparency in funding arrangements, and increased accountability when spending public money, in a submission to the NSW Government’s revie...
An exciting new work experience program in regional NSW is giving Indigenous students an unprecedented insight into what a career might look like in the nation’s Defence Force.
How many times have you got the gist of a government, research, teacher union, or other consultants’ report and felt crestfallen, knowing in your educator gut that strategy won’t change much?
A new $4.3 million research project will hand 25 NSW public schools from disadvantaged areas a platform for positive reform via a ‘high impact’ and ‘evidence-backed’ PD program, despite claims the research behind the model is deeply flawed.
Australia ought to heed the harsh lessons from those school systems around the world that opted to ditch a knowledge-rich curriculum.
