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Of the 15,000 newly graduated teachers, less than half will find permanent employment in Australia. Now’s the time to decide if you stay on to do casual teaching or work abroad.
Academics must teach students how to think – not what to think.
Students reach the middle years of high school with poor vocabularies and unable to work with language in sophisticated ways.
American textbooks confine the history of indigenous peoples to a distant past.
Should history textbooks be revised to include Native American voices?
Teaching often comes second to research in universities. A group of award winning lecturers explains why teaching is the best part of their work.
Just 55% of year 6 students and 52% of year 10 students are meeting the expected grades for ICT. What’s going wrong?
After November 13, teachers in France asked themselves how they could talk to their students about the violence. The answers are both creative and deeply moving.
A professor of literature who is also a poet tackles the issue of the inroads technology has made in the relationship between teacher and learner.
Current incentives used to recruit more teachers to work in rural and regional schools aren’t working. But could the health sector offer up some possible solutions?
A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
The online building game offers a way to explore the world of molecules like no other.
President Obama’s message has put issues around standardized testing back in the news. Here’s what scholars have been saying.
Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
We should be worried that half of teachers are thinking of leaving the profession.
Research shows nearly one in three Australian teachers are so unhappy in their profession they consider leaving within their first five years of employment.
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What’s the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?
Why are we splitting our children up into arts and sciences at an age when hormones are raging and peer pressure is so powerful? It’s time for an overhaul of post-16 education.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Education, UNSW Sydney
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer & Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Course Coordinator, Curtin University
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International adviser, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Digital Transformation, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Deputy Program Director, School Education, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
