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Despite heavy investment by universities, student experience of feedback higher education continues to be less than desirable, especially for at-risk students.
One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson said the Safe Schools program contained 'highly explicit material' that is being 'directed at young children'. We asked the experts to look at the facts.
Many Canadian teachers worry about how to incorporate Indigenous content into the classroom. For one sociology professor, finding Indigenous mentorship was richly rewarding.
Mentoring programs can be enormously valuable for students, both in terms of their academic performance and their professional development.
Various forms of testing that reduce students’ knowledge, capacities and skills to a single number cannot of themselves help inform improvement.
Teachers' lack of confidence in supporting students with autism calls for a better understanding of the disorder and how it may affect learning.
University graduates have the power to enable dignified lives for others in a society. What skills and qualities do they need for this to happen?
Australian teachers have around half as many professional development days as teachers in other countries have.
South African teachers say it's a struggle to apply their training about "inclusive education" in crowded, stressful classroom situations.
Barely one month after the current government was elected in 2010, the secretary of state for education Michael Gove announced the abolition of the General Teaching Council for England. Now, only a few…
The Australian Bankers’ Association and Financial Services Council announced this week plans to establish an industry-led regulatory body for financial planners. However, whether such a body will be effective…
Teachers in England have good access to free courses aimed at improving the quality of their lessons, but many are opting for shorter workshops, rather than the long-term qualifications more common in…
We assume that digital technology can improve education and that the challenge is how to bring innovative technology and educational professionals together. But the evidence shows that despite massive…
Hospitals where nurses are qualified to bachelor’s degree level and have lower patient-to-nurse ratios have lower mortality…
Universities are being shaken up by a new mode of learning. The world’s elite institutions are opening up courses so thousands of people can learn for free via their laptops, mobiles or tablets. And these…
Whether it’s keeping us safe, teaching us to add up, looking after children at risk or helping delinquents mend their ways - police officers, school teachers, social workers and probation officers affect…
The past week has been a tumultuous time for university education faculties. First the NSW government announced minimum entry requirements for teaching degrees, and then the federal government trumped…
Apparently, teachers and principals have no need to hear about research on international education policy and are too sensitive to deal with “controversial” ideas. Last week, the University of Melbourne’s…
It’s been a long time since I have been in a pub at 10.30am but that’s where you would have found me last Saturday at the Great Northern Hotel in Chatswood, Sydney. I wasn’t there to get on the punt or…
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Dean of Education, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Education, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Accounting, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Educational Technologies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, UNSW
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Laureate Professor of Education, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Politics, UNSW
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Lecturer in Nursing, University of Birmingham
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Director, Violence and Society Research Group and Professor of Surgery, Cardiff University
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Director of the Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education (Futures), The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership & Management, Department of Education & Professional Studies, King's College London
