Declining arts education in Australia threatens student creativity, wellbeing, and cultural expression, highlighting the urgent need to protect artistic opportunities.
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The Australian Government Claims to Love This Industry. Weird Way to Show It
An opinion piece examines Australia’s higher education funding for arts and humanities and its impact on creative education and careers.
An opinion piece examines Australia’s higher education funding for arts and humanities and its impact on creative education and careers.
The Ten Strawmen of the Science of Learning
An examination of ten common misconceptions about the science of learning and how they can distort conversations about effective teaching and education.
An examination of ten common misconceptions about the science of learning and how they can distort conversations about effective teaching and education.
Are Students Harnessing AI for Genuine Learning or Just Easy Answers?
Educators are exploring how structured AI use can support learning instead of simply helping students complete academic tasks.
Educators are exploring how structured AI use can support learning instead of simply helping students complete academic tasks.
Bad Behaviour: Do Australian Students Really Miss One Third of Lesson Time Now?
A closer look at a teacher survey questions claims that Australian students lose one-third of lesson time to classroom misbehaviour.
A closer look at a teacher survey questions claims that Australian students lose one-third of lesson time to classroom misbehaviour.
Are Teachers the AI Police? How Do They Judge Authentic Student Writing?
Teachers are increasingly asked to distinguish authentic student writing from AI-generated work, raising questions about trust, assessment, and fairness.
Teachers are increasingly asked to distinguish authentic student writing from AI-generated work, raising questions about trust, assessment, and fairness.
Know Stuff: What We Need to Do to Stop AI Hallucinations
Experts discuss ways to improve AI accuracy, reduce false information, and address the challenge of artificial intelligence hallucinations.
Experts discuss ways to improve AI accuracy, reduce false information, and address the challenge of artificial intelligence hallucinations.
Now, How Can We Ensure Children’s Safety?
A discussion on protecting children through stronger safety measures, awareness, and supportive environments in homes and communities.
A discussion on protecting children through stronger safety measures, awareness, and supportive environments in homes and communities.
I Know What It Is to Need Protection From Parent Abuse
Ask almost any principal and you will hear a version of it, because this is no longer the exception in school leadership. It has become the condition.
Ask almost any principal and you will hear a version of it, because this is no longer the exception in school leadership. It has become the condition.
GenAI Is Now in Our Childcare Centres. But There Isn’t Any Guidance
At the moment, too much of this responsibility is being pushed onto individual educators, directors and providers.
At the moment, too much of this responsibility is being pushed onto individual educators, directors and providers.
Disengagement: Are We Ready to Listen to Students Now?
What we often call “disengagement” is not simply a lack of motivation, effort or discipline.
What we often call “disengagement” is not simply a lack of motivation, effort or discipline.
From Policy to Practice: What Does GenAI Use in Classrooms Actually Look Like?
Most universities now have guidance on GenAI. These documents explain what is allowed, what needs to be acknowledged and where the risks lie.
Most universities now have guidance on GenAI. These documents explain what is allowed, what needs to be acknowledged and where the risks lie.
Want to Support Learners With Refugee Backgrounds? Start With Recognition
What appears to be troubling is that schools and teachers can experience difficulty recognising SfRB in the first place.
What appears to be troubling is that schools and teachers can experience difficulty recognising SfRB in the first place.
Heavy Weather: Are School Policies Built for the Climate Crises Schools Now Face?
These are not so much definitions as placeholders. Yet they are the documents principals are expected to rely on when deciding whether to close their school, send children home, or shelter students on site as conditions deteriorate.
These are not so much definitions as placeholders. Yet they are the documents principals are expected to rely on when deciding whether to close their school, send children home, or shelter students on site as conditions deteriorate.
Pupil Outcomes Are One of the Worst in Australia. Can the Multi-School, Top Down Approach Work?
Taking inspiration from England, Tasmania’s Department for Education, Children and Young People reports the model is internationally proven despite there being no proof that the English approach is any more effective.
Taking inspiration from England, Tasmania’s Department for Education, Children and Young People reports the model is internationally proven despite there being no proof that the English approach is any more effective.
The Right to Belong, the Right to Flourish
Recent debates about the “science of reading” tend to reduce literacy to a technical problem: how efficiently can children be taught to decode print? In this framing, the measure of success is narrow and immediate—test scores, benchmarks, compliance with approved methods. What is less visible are the wider rights, identities and forms of participation that literacy education is meant to support.
Recent debates about the “science of reading” tend to reduce literacy to a technical problem: how efficiently can children be taught to decode print? In this framing, the measure of success is narrow and immediate—test scores, benchmarks, compliance with approved methods. What is less visible are the wider rights, identities and forms of participation that literacy education is meant to support.