By Misty Adoniou. The results of PISA 2015 have just been released – and Australia has slipped down the rankings, again.
The Australian Council of Educational Research has called it, and Australia is now in absolute decline in reading, mathematics and science.
A close reading of the full 472 page report from PISA does indeed offer some salutary lessons for Australia. More...

By Sara Muller. Starting now, South Africa’s pupils will be able to obtain as little as 20% in mathematics in Grades 7, 8 and 9 and still progress to the next year of learning. This has been touted by many as evidence of an alleged inexorable decline in educational standards. More...

By Elizabeth Walton. Many South Africans were outraged by the recent announcement that for 2016, pupils in Grades 7 to 9 could progress to the next grade with only 20% in Mathematics. More...

By Pamela Snow, Anne Castles, Kevin Wheldall and Max Coltheart. In the face of unacceptably low literacy standards in Australian schools, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) recently advocated a trial of the UK Phonics Screening Check (PSC) as one part of the solution. More...

By Peter Goss and Kate Griffiths. Funding schools according to the needs of their students is something of a Holy Grail in Australia: something that we want very much but that has been very hard to achieve. More...

By Penny Van Bergen and Rod Lane. Over the past two decades there have been frequent calls to abandon exams. The major criticisms of exams in schools and universities tend to relate to either the misuse or overuse of exams, and not to the sensible use of exams in partnership with other assessment tasks such as presentations, research reports, creative responses, essays, reflective journals etc. More...

By Stewart Riddle and Bob Lingard. The 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results have been released - and on first glance, it does not look good for Australia. More...

By Megan O'Connell and Kate Torii. When it comes to government spending, all parts of education are not treated equally, new research shows.
Over the last decade, spending on Vocational Education and Training (VET) has plummeted 4% below 2005 levels, while higher education expenditure soared by 45% in ten years. More...

By Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. The circulation of fake news through social media in the 2016 presidential election has raised several concerns about online information. More...

By Julie Funk. A 2013 national survey of DVM graduates found the average debt for students was as high as US$162,113. This is similar to the average educational debt of $180,723 accrued by physicians in 2015. However, physicians have much higher lifetime earnings than veterinarians, making it easier for them to manage their debt. More...