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A good teacher must be an expert in their subject matter, but at least four other traits may be even more important. A survey of Australian students, parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers has revealed their ideas about the most important characteristics of an effective ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at why streaming services are becoming more prominent in preschool, dive deep into Edith Cowan VC Steve Chapman's coming out as a ...

Serious investigation into full-time employment pathways for casual academics was among key recommendations of a new report on producing gender equity in higher education. Women, Careers, and Universities: Where to from here? reinforces a hoard of other published literature that ...

The government can do more to claw back vocational student debt from dodgy providers that have been rorting the system, consumer advocates say. Education minister Simon Birmingham has announced extensive changes to the loan system, months after several private providers ...

There is a link between universities’ performance in pervasive global rankings charts and their use of social media to communicate with students, a representative from social media management site Hootsuite has argued. Ben Mulligan, marketing manager for Hootsuite Australia and New ...

The Grattan Institute’s higher education program director, Andrew Norton, expressed concern over the federal government’s cap on vocational student loans announced this week. He said the government's plan simply adapted Labor’s one-size-fits all cap into a "three- sizes-fit-all approach”. Earlier in ...

The Australian National University has offered its School of Music a $12.5 million boost after admitting mismanagement allowed “distrust and emotional stress to fester” within the faculty. This week, ANU released its final report into the school, written by professor ...

Former prime minister John Howard has been sarcastically labelled “a cracker of a role model” by University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor professor Jan Thomas. This was in response to Howard’s comments at the National Press Club in September, where he ...

A breakdown in The Age’s advertisement sorting system led to the printing of a half-page Victoria University commercial commiserating AFL premiers, the Western Bulldogs, over their supposed “Grand Final loss". The Bulldogs ended their 62-year premiership drought over the weekend, ...

A University of Queensland workshop has aimed to help teachers from 15 regional Queensland high schools become better at teaching science by linking them with university researchers. The teachers worked with the scientists for a week, investigating cancer cell biology. ...