We believe no other intervention has been so thoroughly tested in Australian schools or amassed such a comprehensive body of evidence.
- Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
A new review adopts a now all-too-familiar approach of increasing layers of regulation and telling teacher educators how to do their jobs.
Our results highlight what’s possible when programs aimed at helping the most disadvantaged students are well funded.
Teaching has long been treated as the poor cousin of higher education. The Universities Accord has the opportunity to change this.
Analysing two major studies, researchers found it did not matter if teachers had less than one year of experience or had spent 25 years in the classroom – they delivered the same quality of teaching.
Three decades of efforts to improve equal access to university have not worked. A new book, based on ten years of research, aims to look beyond narrow, impersonal definitions of ‘equity’.
A new report comes at a critical time. Every year, between 5% and 9% of Australian students do not meet year-level expectations in literacy or numeracy.
Improving initial teacher education is a long-term strategy. It won’t achieve the education minister’s goal of getting Australia to the top-performing nations in maths and literacy by 2030.
Children of parents with degrees are 60% more likely than ‘first in family’ students to want to go to university. The aspiration gap exists throughout school, but equity policies neglect its impacts.
We compared the educational progress in years 3 and 4 in 2019 with 2020 – the year normal schooling was disrupted by the pandemic. Overall, students progressed at the same rate in both years.
An alternative to costly teacher professional development courses is already improving teaching in our classrooms.
We need to shift the focus of equity programs to nurturing the already strong aspirations Indigenous children have from primary school.
A new report into teacher education in Australia has called for an overhaul of the system amid concerns students are being selected who aren’t fit to teach and some graduates are not classroom ready. The…
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli’s discussion paper on teacher education, Great Teaching, Inspired Learning released earlier this week, could be seen as yet another review for a profession literally…
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