While parents may be hearing about AI in their work or in the news, they may not realise it is also being introduced into their child’s classrooms.
- Professor, Leadership and School Transformation, School of Education, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle
Research which shows you can reliably predict a student’s year 12 results by year 11. This suggests we don’t need a battery of stressful exams to work out what they do next.
A recently published book provides strategies for schools to help young people dealing with trauma and forced migration to integrate into their new communities.
Our educational model, and particularly end-of-school assessments, are based on old modes of practice that no longer serve the 21st century student and their future. We have other options.
We’re told jobs requiring science and maths skills are growing faster than others. But industry reports also highlight human skills will be more important in the age of automation.
A new study and its methods provides a way to replace the current Year 12 structure with one that will help prepare senior school students for their journey into the future – whatever that may be.
The implications of the government’s announcement are about more than incentivising the career trajectories of students. They are a direct assault on the premise of universities.
Technology has disrupted the way universities offer courses, the types of skills we will need, and the duration for which we will need them. Here are three things universities must do to survive.
There is little evidence that external inspections and evaluation measures produce better teachers.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
We need a major revamp of teacher education from the inside out that changes the model to provide all children with the education that is right for them.
School principals are experiencing increasing levels of violence and threats from students and parents. What needs to change?
Where I come from in North Carolina it is currently 14 hours behind Australian Eastern Standard Time. I tell my colleagues that I have come from the past. However, when it comes to seeing how the failed…
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