It appears that many high achieving students are shunning a teaching career these days. More than half the Year 12 students offered places in teaching degrees this year had university entrance scores below the average of 70, with one in eight scoring 50 or less, according to a recent article in The Australian. Arguments about the …

Our future economic growth, prosperity and wellbeing depend on what we do now as a nation. And anything we do should be based on research-evidence. For those reasons alone, investment in educational research should be at the top of our agenda. Someone please tell me why it isn’t. Let’s look at school education in particular. …

We update during the day! The following post is by Babak Dadvand, La Trobe University Navigating Australia’s Teacher Shortage Challenges Australia is currently grappling with a teacher shortage crisis, and the implications are reverberating through the education system. The symposium titled “Understanding Teacher Retention: How are policies and practices contributing towards the teacher shortage, and …

Kids with learning and behavioural difficulties couldn’t possibly tell us anything about quality teaching… could they? Anti-inclusion sentiment has reached fever pitch following the most recent Hearing of the Disability Royal Commission; one that aimed to hear both sides of a so-called “binary” debate. If folks were hoping the hearing would prove that it’s all …

We ask this question of children almost as soon as they can speak: What do you want to be when you grow up? We were all asked this question many times during our childhood and adolescence. Those enquiring after our hopes and dreams were parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, and family friends. Often our …