Longer and less useful: report calls for national PD overhaul

Marie Trevithick

By Marie Trevithick
Community contribution / October 17, 2017

A new research report published by the Centre for Independent Studies says Australian teachers are not getting as much out of their professional development as educators in other countries.

The report, entitled Getting the most out of Gonski 2.0: The evidence base for school investments says that teachers ...

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