This story appeared in the October 2013 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
The significant work undertaken by teachers who mentor ITE students on top of their regular classroom duties amounts to ‘hidden labour’ in schools, an academic has flagged.
Youth crime is emerging as a key Queensland election battleground, with the Liberal National Party pledging to open dedicated deterrence schools for youths.
Artificial intelligence education technology aimed to ease pressures on teachers will launch in NSW classrooms this year in one of the largest rollouts of its kind globally, the State Government says.
Victoria’s education minister is demanding that the Federal Government contribute an additional $600 million per year to the state’s public schools following months of negotiations over funding.
History students in NSW will learn about the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australians and the experiences of Holocaust victims as part of a major curriculum overhaul.
The financial and personal toll that comes with commuting into Sydney schools each day presents a huge challenge to the future of the city’s teaching workforce, new research has warned.
In the first of our Q&A’s profiling winners from this year’s Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards, presented by Schools Plus, we chat to Georgia Park, an instructional coach at Cosgrove High School in Tasmania.
Professor Thierry Corrège is a professor of paleoclimatology from the University of Bordeaux in France.
Australian universities have experienced record cash flows. Some pay their vice chancellors some of the highest incomes for people in such positions globally.
With increasing financial strain, staff and volunteer shortages, and mounting demands from busy families, school canteens and tuck shops are under threat like never before.