Victoria University’s new Block Model of education – whereby students study one subject intensively over four weeks, instead of four over 11 or 12 weeks – is having a marked effect on student retention and performance, prompting experts, policymakers and ...

When principal of Templestowe College, Peter Hutton, was at school, like many of us, he was told that one day, the esoteric-seeming knowledge he gained would be useful. "That hasn't happened yet," Hutton quipped at a recent event. Perhaps this would have been ...