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Students at small private institutions rate their learning experience more highly but get lumbered with more debt.

Why Australia’s happiest students have the highest HECS debt

There is a powerful correlation between size and satisfaction when it comes to universities.

  • Julie Hare

August

Winning strategy: Giving students the best chance of success

Comment provided by the winner of the equity and access award, University of Newcastle.

  • Anna Bennett
University of Newcastle’s Drew Miller: Improving teaching standards and student outcomes.

Winning strategy: Remarkable results lifting HSC scores by 50pc

Comment provided by the winner of the Community Engagement category, the University of Newcastle.

  • Drew Miller

This school has joined the education revolution. What about your kids?

Australian schools are finally catching up with teaching that works after a multibillion-dollar boost to student funding failed to lift learning outcomes.

  • Julie Hare
Girls outperform boys in every NAPLAN domain except numeracy.

Boys’ results plummet early in high school

After 10 years of compulsory schooling, about two in five boys are struggling to read and write at a high level. This is a big problem for the nation.

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  • Julie Hare
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Too many teachers are having to improvise their classroom materials.

Three ways to end NAPLAN mediocrity in our schools

Governments must lift proficiency levels, boost the quality of classroom curriculums and identify as soon as possible those students who are falling behind.

  • Jordana Hunter and Nick Parkinson
NAPLAN is an important insight into the health of Australia’s education system – but what it reveals is not encouraging.

NAPLAN is a measure of wealth, not student ability

This year’s assessment results confirm what we already know – rich kids do well, poor kids don’t. This is to our national shame.

  • Julie Hare
Education Minister Jason Clare on Tuesday.

Minister on a mission needs a break from the states

The latest NAPLAN results are bad news for too many school students. Jason Clare is determined to change that, but will he succeed where so many others failed?

  • Jennifer Hewett

May

Yossi Matias at the Financial Review AI Summit on Tuesday.

Google Research chief predicts children will soon be tutored by AI

Yossi Matias said healthcare, education and climate were the three areas most likely to be most changed by artificial intelligence in the near-term.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

February

Teaching quality in universities is a brake on productivity.

Poor university teaching ‘a drag on productivity’

The Productivity Commissioner says there are no incentives inside universities to lift their game and no way for students to know what they are signing up to.

  • Julie Hare

January

The teachers most likely to be effective tend to cluster in wealthy areas.

Good teachers worsening the education divide: research

Highly skilled teachers are less likely to work in disadvantaged areas where they could have the most impact, new research finds.

  • Julie Hare

December 2023

Federal education minister Jason Clare is being urged by the usual educational suspects led by the teacher unions to double down on Labor’s Gonski spending monument.

Jason Clare’s counter-insurgency must save the education revolution

The PISA results are an opportunity to draw a line under the failed educational thinking and practices that have allowed school students to fall behind.

  • The AFR View
The factor that has the greatest impact on student outcomes is the quality of teaching they receive.

What Australia must do to lift flatlining student scores

This country may have averted the worst of the COVID-era education destruction, but that doesn’t mitigate the many flaws in our school system.

  • Glenn Fahey

November 2023

The biggest and overarching problem is the failure to precisely specify what material teachers should be teaching and what students should be learning.

Australian Curriculum gets an F for failing teachers and students

Correlation isn’t causation, yet surely it is fair to connect poor student achievement with the deficiencies in a curriculum setting out what is taught in schools.

  • The AFR View
Learning to read is one of life’s great joys – but too few children are taught in an evidence-based way.

Australia’s slow march towards getting reading right

Making sure all children and young adults can read must be a top priority for all governments.

  • Amy Haywood and Anika Stobart
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September 2023

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews meets TAFE students.

Victorian TAFEs push for single employer status

The institutes’ teachers are hoping the Fair Work Commission will pave the way for them to bargain collectively.

  • Julie Hare

August 2023

Shadow education minister Sarah Henderson says explicit instruction should be mandated university teacher education courses.

‘Dud’ teaching degrees to blame for failing schools: Henderson

The opposition education minister said “deficient” university teacher education courses were to blame for falling school performance and should be defunded.

  • Julie Hare
Beginning teachers are just that – at the start of their career and we chould expect nothing more.

New teachers should have our support, not denigration

Much of the debate around initial teacher education disregards facts and is undermining the newest members of our most noble of professions.

  • Mary Ryan

Unscripted: Griffith’s assessment plan to combat cheating

Griffith University’s oral assessment program aims to deter plagiarism and rote learning.

  • Sian Powell

Studying music goes well beyond the classroom

Music students benefit from greater vocational direction and are finding new career opportunities.

  • Nicki Bourlioufas

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