Improving teacher effectiveness would have a greater impact on economic growth than any other reform before Australian governments, this paper argues. The improvement in student learning could lift Australian students to the top of international performance tables. An increase in teacher effectiveness of 10% would lift Australia’s education systems into the highest performing group of...

This report extends Becta’s enquiries into the ways in which digital technologies are supporting learning. It looks in detail at the learning practices mediated by ICT in nine secondary schools in which ICT for learning is well embedded. The project proposes a broader perspective on the notion of ‘impact’ that is rather different from a...

This briefing paper assesses the effect VET in Schools programs have on school retention, post-school vocational education and training (VET) and employment, and on young people's school and post-school aspirations. VET in Schools programs are seen as a way to increase Year 12 retention through broadening subject choices in the school curriculum. Research based on...

In response to Recommendation 10 of Dr Rigby's report Enhancing Responses to Bullying in Queensland Schools the Queensland Schools Alliance Against Violence (QSAAV) was formed to provide advice to the Minister for Education and Training on best practice measures to address bullying and violence in Queensland schools. Eight recommendations were provided in this 2010 report...

The place of the arts in the new Australian K–12 national curriculum is now available for national public consultation until 17 December 2010. Feedback will be used to further revise the draft shape paper, which will then be published as The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. This paper will guide the writing of...