Education policy experts run through the major changes for education in Budget 2018 for schools, VET and higher education.
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When teachers are more adaptable, they’re better able to respond to the changing nature of teaching, and navigate a complex workplace.
As companies and governments attempt to intensify extraction, cultural resistance offers a space for imagining alternative futures.
Democratic schools already employ some of the recommendations from the Gonski report, chief among them individualisation of teaching.
The colonial and apartheid education project still echoes in South Africa’s post-1994 school system.
The role of general capabilities in a subject-based curriculum has been a recurring theme in Australian curriculum history.
The recently released Gonski 2.0 report focuses on overhauling core aspects of curriculum and reporting, and proposes a move away from the industrial model of education towards individualisation.
The damning report, released on Monday, says the decline is widespread and “equivalent to a generation of Australian school children falling short of their full learning potential”.
For the thousands of children who have left armed groups, education is crucial to their reintegration.
Rwandan girls with disabilities are challenging domination and stereotypes in a male-dominated setting.
Needs-based funding is necessary, but it can only do so much. It’s much more effective if we don’t have schools with high concentrations of poverty and disadvantage.
We shouldn’t save play for the playground.
Emmanuel Macron is driving through his neoliberal agenda by relying on French police forces renowned for their violence against ethnic minority citizens, protestors and migrants.
Scrapping nurses’ bursaries was met with almost universal condemnation. But could it be a good thing?
Staff wages are a huge challenge facing the survival of Kenya’s public universities, but strikes are another.
There’s been a drop in the number of people enrolling in teacher preparation courses. This is due to problems such as pay, professional autonomy, and a national obsession with standardised testing.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, Arab-Islamic education is neither a limited nor recent phenomena. While poorly understood, it remains a fundamental part of the educational development of the region.
Storytelling has endangered status in UK schools, partly due to a huge emphasis on ‘active learning’.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland, this episode of the podcast looks at its history, its legacy and the impact of Brexit on its future.
Research shows punishments like suspension and expulsion further disadvantage already vulnerable students and could result in long term criminal and anti-social behaviour.
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University
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Adjunct Professor of Education, Victoria University
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Lecturer, School of Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher, The University of Melbourne
