While spending has grown for preschools, schools and universities, vocational education misses out.
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The latest round of NAPLAN results show Australia’s school systems are not good at reducing the influence of a student’s background on their academic achievement.
Policy continuity is what is needed to improve Australian students’ maths capability.
A flat-rate fee on all student loans is a fairer economic proposal.
The role of private tuition plays a part in the overall success of students in Singapore, with around 80% of primary-school children having at least three hours of private tuition a week.
The furore over Australia’s international ranking in science, maths and English obscures what we should really be focusing on.
Australia’s performance in science continues to slide due to ineffective, traditional teaching practices and an outdated curriculum. Here’s what needs to change.
A focus on phonics may be the cure to Australia’s literacy woes.
The questions young people tend to ask about maths often relate to their personal experience of how they found maths in school.
Exams do have a purpose, but they shouldn’t be used to assess the recall of meaningless facts.
What students can learn from time spent in care homes.
Latest TIMSS report shows that students in Australia make very little – if any – progress in maths from Year 4 to Year 8.
A new proposed deal on school funding delivers the Gonski funding within budget.
In praise of the teaching excellence framework.
Being a good critical thinker is a desirable and highly-sought after trait for getting a job in today’s economy. But are universities actually teaching this skill effectively?
Highly restrictive speech codes are now the norm in some of the world’s universities.
For subjects mired in jargon and technical words, what role does language play in breaking down obstacles to communication and understanding.
The government has announced it will accept recommendations to make the university admissions process more transparent. But that alone isn’t enough.
While students enjoy learning with robots, research finds that teachers are more sceptical – worrying about their job security and technical capabilities of robots.
The government has heavily invested in initiatives intended to help children understand finance. But should this be taught by school teachers instead who are sensitive to kid’s backgrounds?
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University
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Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher at ProtectED, University of Salford
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of science education, Deakin University
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CEO, Australian Council for Educational Research
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
