Higher Education Whisperer

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)  released " Back to the Future of Education: Four OECD Scenarios for S...

Greetings from Yogyakarta, at the IEEE TALE 2019 engineering education conference , where Ghada Salama from Texas A&M University a...

A report from the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) is entitled " Attendance matters ". However, t...

A 103 page report on  Optimising STEM Industry-School Partnerships: Inspiring Australia's Next Generation has been  released by the Aus...

The Western Australia government has announced a planned closure of the WA Schools of the Air (SOTA) will not not take...

The Western Australia Minister for Education and Training, Sue Ellery , has announced the closing of the WA Schools of the Air (SOTA) in...

The ACT Government, which looks after Canberra's schools (both public and private) has issued a discussion paper and invited comment on...

Posso (2016) in a study of Australian adolescent school students concludes that online social networks reduce their maths results, whereas ...

Dr John Vallance , Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, has been reported as saying that money spent on computers in Australian schools w...

The book " How To Pass a Test: Is this the direction of Australian education today? " by Lynne Edwards was launched by  Narell...

Greetings from the the University of Technology Sydney, where Professor Anthony Bryk , President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Adv...

Professor Anthony Bryk , President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will speak on " Learning to Improve: S...

In " Equipping kids with digital skills key to future success " (The Australian, 15 April 2015),  Brenda Aynsley OAM FACS, Presid...

The Australian Government has released the Final Report of a  " Review of the Australian Curriculum " by Professor Ken Wiltshire...

Jill Andrew , from the Future Learning Team, talked on " Integrating Technology into the Australian School Curriculum " at...

Professor Ian Chubb, the Chief Scientist, has released " Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Australia’s Future " (2...

Jill Andrew , from the Future Learning Team, will speak on " Integrating Technology into the Australian School Curriculum " at t...

Recently I took part in a discussion of how to introduce young people to a career in IT. One point made was that this does not need to be vi...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where researchers are reporting on " First Year Student Expectations an...

Grattan Institute's report , " Turning around schools: it can be done ", suggests schools can learning from each other and tea...