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The Scots thought their education system was world-beating, until the OECD started publishing rankings.
The right is celebrating the potential return of selective schools, but there are major political obstacles to overcome first.
Focusing on progress – not just achievement – and investing in improving teaching practice will help to lift slipping standards in Australian schools.
Advice from five education academics on what the new secretary of state should prioritise.
Are grammar schools a force for good in England’s reformed education system?
20% of surveyed early education educators said they want to leave their job due to low pay, volume of paperwork and feeling undervalued.
The way the higher education sector uses data from the OECD is often technically correct, but substantively misleading.
Education does help to grow the economy, but research highlights some severe limitations.
Responsibility for the operation of public schools needs to be separated from the policymaking and regulatory functions and put into a separate authority.
Maxine McKew speaks with education expert John Hattie about the kind of debates we really should be having around education.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
So far the budget has given us more education gift cards to use in the stores of the federal government’s choosing - two more tests for children; one when they come into school and one when they leave.
Plans to turn all schools into academies by 2022 have caused a crisis within the party.
The children most likely to benefit from quality early education are the most likely to miss out. Here are five key changes the government needs to make to address this.
International education tests reveal Australia has either stagnated or declined in many subject areas, including maths and science, while other countries have made big improvements. Why is this?
After a three-week debacle, the findings of the review into the Safe Schools Coalition program are out. Here’s what academic experts make of the review.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Around one in five Australian school students are disengaged, leading to disruptive behaviours in class and students dropping out.
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Management Consultant & Occasional Lecturer in Management & Economics, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Dean of Education, School of Education and Institute for Education, Bath Spa University
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Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Australian Catholic University