Governments should stop measuring predictors of failure among Australian schoolchildren ... and start addressing them, according to Professor Johanna Wyn.
Teacher alumni are being urged to become mentors for new generations of pre-service teachers, in a call to action by Associate Professor Di Bloomfield.
Australian public education has never recovered from the reintroduction of state aid for non-government schools, according to Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Sherington.
Research showing national economic benefit from keeping children in school for longer is flawed, according to Honorary Professor in Education Susan Groundwater-Smith.
Mobilising community interest in social-justice values is the key to improving social-work practice, according to Professor of Social Work and Social Justice Jude Irwin.
The ABC's weeknight current affairs flagship program, 7.30, has highlighted a teacher-mentoring initiative being run by the faculty and Sydney Theatre Company.
NALPAN-like methods of comparing schools reduce learning opportunities and cause student interest to plummet, according to Professor of Education Peter Reimann.
Beverly Hills Girls High School has become the first host school for a new course designed to help experienced teachers improve their mentoring of trainee teachers.
Faculty researchers joined the biggest names in technology-based learning at this year's International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL).
Social Work graduate and founder of cancer-research charity Can Too, Anne Crawford, has won the 2011 University of Sydney Alumni Award for Community Achievement.
Distinguished Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith, an expert increasing access to universities for indigenous students, will join the faculty in August.
Faculty Laureate Fellow Peter Goodyear will discuss the future of learning with technology with the state's Department of Education and Training in April.
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton joined with 2010 NSW Young Australian of the Year Jack Manning Bancroft to celebrate the launch of major books by faculty academics.
The Federal Government has decided to abolish the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). Join us in signing the petition now, before it's too late.
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Governments should stop measuring predictors of failure among Australian schoolchildren ... and start addressing them, according to Professor Johanna Wyn.
Professorial Research Fellow Professor Peter Freebody has been elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Scholars from Australia, China and Canada have met at a major international conference to compare their countries' experiences of multiculturalism.
Teacher alumni are being urged to become mentors for new generations of pre-service teachers, in a call to action by Associate Professor Di Bloomfield.
Professor Michael Jacobson has been invited to join the editorial boards of two international peer-reviewed journals.
Occasional address to Science, and Education and Social Work graduands on November 4, 2011, by Dr Timothy Wright, headmaster of Shore School. 
Australian public education has never recovered from the reintroduction of state aid for non-government schools, according to Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Sherington.
Research showing national economic benefit from keeping children in school for longer is flawed, according to Honorary Professor in Education Susan Groundwater-Smith. 
Mobilising community interest in social-justice values is the key to improving social-work practice, according to Professor of Social Work and Social Justice Jude Irwin.
The ABC's weeknight current affairs flagship program, 
NALPAN-like methods of comparing schools reduce learning opportunities and cause student interest to plummet, according to Professor of Education Peter Reimann.
Beverly Hills Girls High School has become the first host school for a new course designed to help experienced teachers improve their mentoring of trainee teachers.
Award-winning author and educator Libby Gleeson has been announced as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence for the Faculty of Education and Social Work.
Faculty researchers joined the biggest names in technology-based learning at this year's International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL).
Social Work graduate and founder of cancer-research charity Can Too, Anne Crawford, has won the 2011 University of Sydney Alumni Award for Community Achievement. 
A scholarship provided by Ascham School brings to four the number of new scholarship programs funded in the past two years. 
The faculty has received institution-wide recognition in the University's Annual Report.
Distinguished Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith, an expert increasing access to universities for indigenous students, will join the faculty in August. 
PhD candidate Simon McIntyre is behind the Online teaching project that's topping the charts in iTunes.
Faculty Laureate Fellow Peter Goodyear will discuss the future of learning with technology with the state's Department of Education and Training in April. 
Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton joined with 2010 NSW Young Australian of the Year Jack Manning Bancroft to celebrate the launch of major books by faculty academics.
The Federal Government has decided to abolish the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). Join us in signing the petition now, before it's too late.
Researchers at the CoCo Research Centre have won grants from both ALTC and Google for their work in online writing.