Australia is a first-world country and yet our students are falling behind other nations. Teaching was once held up as the noblest of professions but today the vast majority of teachers believe the public doesn’t respect them. Around the country there are public schools achieving phenomenal results and yet in the very same jurisdictions there are public schools barely staying afloat. In our new groundbreaking series Best in Class we will examine these profound problems and find the critical solutions we need. Because nothing less than the future of our children depends on it.
Stalled progress on student-to-teacher ratios have prompted a call for greater state school funding as new analysis reveals Catholic schools have fewer teachers than their public counterparts on average. SEARCH FOR YOUR SCHOOL.
Reluctant teen addicts are “snuggling” their vapes in their sleep and skipping class for a puff despite the government’s legislative crackdown. Read their shock confessions.
Progressive strategies to ease the workload of teachers drowning in paperwork and red tape will be implemented in NSW schools, including using artificial intelligence. Find out how it will work.
Queensland’s mobile phone ban in schools has greatly improved students’ lives, now the minister has a new target in her sights.
Educators are losing control of their classrooms as social media consumes the way students think and behave, according to an experienced Queensland teacher.
Education Minister Jason Clare has declared social media “toxic” in an exclusive interview, and revealed the school statistic that keeps him awake at night.
The most crowded and well-resourced classrooms around Victoria have been revealed, with more than 1100 schools stuck with worse student-staff ratios than the national average. See how your school rates.
How many students does your child’s teacher have to deal with? We’ve compared SA’s teacher-student ratios – see how your school stacks up.
Experts warn that excessive screen time is harming children’s development, leading to calls for a blanket ban on mobile phones in schools. What do you think? Vote in our poll.
A “strict” headmistress who has transformed her Western Sydney state school into one of the most well-mannered in Australia has revealed why she believes any school can adopt her successful measures.
Any parent or teacher will tell you that mobile phones and learning don’t go well together. But what if they also don’t go well apart?
Just four years into the career she’d dreamt about, Olivia is on the brink of abandoning teaching altogether. Here she reveals the brutal reality of life in the classroom.
Australia is facing an education crisis with teachers leaving the school system in droves. Experienced educators have revealed in open letters what finally forced them to quit the career they had once dreamed of. Read what they said here.
Aussie students will be taught old-school discipline, including how to line up and keep quiet, in a bid to tackle the classroom behaviour crisis that sees teachers routinely abused and children disrupted.
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