A $10 million federal government campaign to attract more people to teaching is welcomed, but attention also needs to be on retaining those who have chosen it as a career.
The rise of influencer culture has been meteoric, but what’s going on behind the selfie stick? And what does it have to do with gender dynamics?
Until crucial steps are taken, the current “system” of payment of academic casuals or sessional staff will continue to be an unproductive source of contestation.
COVID-19 further exposed existing cracks in the teaching profession that need to be fixed urgently.
Teacher retention is an ongoing issue. Actions to enhance respect will result in more positive and productive relationships between teachers and students, as well as with colleagues, and parents.
We can partially solve the teacher supply crisis by first recognising the problems and taking action, including making processes easier for international educators.
There’s an “unprecedented” shortage of teachers right across Australia. Education ministers have released a plan to try to address it.
The Australian Educational Research Organisation’s failure to acknowledge NAPLAN’s flaws, nor draw on significant existing research, reflects a lack of respect for English teachers.
With an unavoidable reduction in research output, women are forced out of science at earlier stages in their careers.
A change of federal government in Australia presents an opportunity to focus on schools as a whole and help create a sustainable environment for teachers to thrive.
For employers to feel confident hiring individuals who graduated from their course in the 2020s, they need to be convinced of their job-worthiness.
Even the most innovative use of digital technology in education comes with potential problems, and unforeseen consequences.
Students enter medical training with preconceived ideas of doctors’ professional identity, but how do academics foster it in the transition to online teaching?
Healthcare education is in need of a major overhaul if it's to address the sector’s climate change impact.
While all Australians have been affected by the pandemic, there’s clear evidence of an asymmetry along gender lines.
Advances in anatomy education have allowed it to successfully pivot to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, but laboratory dissection remains a cornerstone of the discipline.
Pandemic uncertainty is a global struggle, never more so than among COVID-19's frontline healthcare workers – but can tolerance of medical uncertainty be taught?
The economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 crisis have reinforced gender inequality across the globe – as shown in the medical research field.
During the COVID-19 crisis, we need the arts more than ever to feel connected, but it's also exposed the fragility of the sector.
The coronavirus is highlighting the integral role that mass compulsory education plays in society.
Interest is growing in the possible teaching and learning applications of eSports across all areas of the curriculum.
Monash is recognised for the strength of its gender scholarship, health and legal research, education, industry engagement and commitment to social justice.
Work is under way on how to best teach our future health workforce about environmental sustainability and its impacts.
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