This report discusses the findings of a study into the effectiveness of a peer mentoring approach for delivering professional learning to educators and teachers in early childhood education and care services. Overall, the findings suggest that while peer mentoring requires a high level of planning and support, it is a feasible and promising way to...

The Future Leaders Program (FLP) pilot focused on testing a new approach to professional development for aspiring school leaders to increase the supply, quality and retention of school leaders in regional and remote Australia. This report sets out findings on the design, implementation, outputs and outcomes of the FLP for the first and second cohorts...

This report presents comparative data on curriculum at the content level. It summarises existing literature, explores trends in curriculum adaptation, addresses challenges and strategies for effective implementation and offers policy insights drawn from real-world experiences of curriculum reforms.

Australian students’ results on international tests of mathematics (TIMMS) and numeracy (PISA) lag behind many comparable countries and have stagnated or declined compared to previous years. Policy responses to address disappointing educational outcomes have enjoyed limited overall success. The author of this paper argues that this is because a piece of practice and policy has...

This paper analyses anonymised National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) data linked to later employment for the recent cohort of primary teachers to better understand what might be driving secondary students’ falling performance in maths and science. The results show that one in four new primary teachers failed NCEA Level 1 maths, and more than...