Education policy

Can humans and machines co-exist in education? And read on to discover why STEM matters

By Sarah Langman and Ben Zunica

Here is another of our intermittent blogs during the #AARE2022 conference. If you want to cover a session at

The perplexing political life of education online

By Eve Mayes and Naomi Barnes

One of our intermittent blogs during the #AARE2022 conference. If you want to cover a session at the conference,

Siemens: the biggest challenges facing education now and ways to meet them

By George Siemens

The AARE 2022 conference opens this year with a keynote from George Siemens. Here are some of his

What we must do now to rescue Australian schools

By Scott Eacott

We expect education to be a catalyst for more equitable and inclusive societies yet too often governments and systems deploy one-stop solutions without detailed plans for how exactly improvements will be achieved or at what costs. The Building Education Systems for Equity and Inclusion report comes from an Academy of Social Sciences of Australia workshop

Why is there so much talk about teachers right now? Because we are afraid of them

By Meghan Stacey, Mihajla Gavin, Jessica Gerrard, Anna Hogan and Jessica Holloway

The federal minister for education Jason Clare convened a roundtable to solve the teacher shortage on the eve of the new government’s Job Summit. Items on the agenda? It wasn’t hard to go past working conditions, status, and a growing, chronic teacher shortage as the impetus for history-making industrial action and considerable media coverage. Concerns about

If only we really wanted to solve the problems

By Jim Watterston

Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education

How to support our proud and essential profession

By Susan Ledger

Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education

The One Teacher Test Which Won’t Make A Difference

By Melissa Barnes

Improving teacher quality has been central to recent education reform initiatives around the world. However, what counts as

The White Paper: old, tired and lacking evidence

By Debra Hayes

In the months before the pandemic gripped the world, the NSW Productivity Commission released a presciently titled discussion paper, Kickstarting the Productivity Conversation. Its recently released followup White Paper sets out its plan for rebooting the economy.  Lifting school results is part of the plan. The Commission acknowledges  the ‘pandemic has shown how quickly schools,