education

We need to encourage school girls to consider careers in STEM, engineering in particular, writes Dr Mahdokht Shaibani.

In youth policy and service delivery the idea of youth voice and participation is an uncontested “good thing”. But which youth voices? Who is heard and who is left out?

“Whichever way you cut it, the May 2022 Federal Election will be different because we are a different nation in a different world.”

The federal and NSW governments delivered $120 million in overfunding to 130 private schools in 2020, a new report shows.

Monash University research into young Australian women reveals high levels of stress, and lack of career direction.

There is endless debate about whether private schools add value to students’ academic results. But research consistently shows when socioeconomic factors are taken into account, this is not the case.

In Australia, male teachers make up 22 percent of all teachers, yet more of them wish to leave the profession.

Many teachers are sick of pretending they are “doing OK”. They feel pressured to be unrealistically positive in the face of evidence that everything is not great.

Now a CEO, Susannah actually never went to uni. She wants parents to know that the HSC score isn’t the end of the world.

Research tracking teacher, classes and their grades over many years shows gender bias has long-term impacts on students’ performance and their post-school study choices

In Bri Lee’s recently released third book, Who Gets To Be Smart, she interrogates educational privilege in Australia, writing about intersection of class, gender and religion.

COVID has had devastating impacts on girls’ education in particular, unwinding decades of progress, writes Susanne Legena CEO of Plan.