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Student attitudes to equality ‘transcend topical issues’

The 2017 Children’s Word of the Year has been revealed as ‘equality’, but this was influenced by much more than topical news stories

Changes to principals' hiring powers ‘don’t go far enough’

This week, one state curbed the hiring power of its principals in an effort to create a more equitable staffing system for schools

Education’s most influential figures of 2017 uncovered

The results of The Educator’s third annual Hot List have been announced

Govt announces National School Resourcing Board

Eight experts have been appointed to flesh out the way the Federal Government’s $23.5bn school funding package is allocated

‘No credible evidence’: Academics hit out at Gonski report

Leading researchers have questioned a recent report outlining how schools should best use their share of Gonski 2.0 funding

‘A visible expression of contemporary learning’

One Melbourne school has won an international award for its innovative education design project

Catholic schools announce strike

Thousands of Sydney teachers will stop work tomorrow as Catholic schools take industrial action

A global approach to education

St Paul’s School recently hosted a global forum designed to tackle the most complex problems facing future generations

Flexible literacy program showing promising results

A major funding boost has been announced for a program aimed at improving literacy and numeracy outcomes of students in remote schools

‘This is not a time to have a crisis of imagination’ – expert

An internationally renowned thought leader tells The Educator how schools can maximise their students’ preparedness for the future workplace, and world