Using examples from the Melbourne Declaration on the Educational Goals for Young Australians and from work completed by ACER, this paper examines the challenges of measuring and improving the non-academic outcomes of schooling. The paper outlines common difficulties encountered when defining non-academic outcomes and establishing mechanisms to measure outcomes within schools, and the paper explores...

A summary of Indigenous students’ results in international tests of reading, mathematical and scientific literacy suggests that initiatives to improve the education of Indigenous students have, to date, had little effect. According to the report Indigenous students remain overrepresented at the lower levels and underrepresented at the upper levels of proficiency in the OECD Programme...

Australia needs half of the population to be fluent in an Asian language within 30 years or risk falling behind other countries, this report has found. Australia must abandon its monolingual mindset to keep pace with economic and political power houses of China, India, Japan and Indonesia, according to this study by Griffith Asia Institute...

The student support service program enhances the capacity of Victorian government schools to meet the additional learning and wellbeing needs of children and young people through the provision of access to school and community specialist support. Student support services staff comprise psychologists, guidance officers, speech pathologists, social workers, visiting teachers and other allied health professionals...

At the University of Melbourne, the introduction of the Melbourne Model presented many course designers with the chance to begin with a blank slate as though they are creating an entirely new university. This was especially so for those interested in interdisciplinary studies and this paper reports on the first iteration of one of the...