Will your teaching staff be here at the end of the year?
As a former teacher I can whole heartedly say that teaching is one of the most rewarding and inspiring professions. So, why are so many teachers leaving the profession?
   Workload, particularly increased non-teaching tasks, lack of support, and the lack of respect and appreciation for the teaching profession, are the main reasons many teachers choose to leave the occupation (Buchanan, 2010).
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Using AI to set students straight and streamline assessment
The thing about plagiarism or maybe paying someone else to write your paper for you is that it is counter-productive. So a student might have managed to pull a fast one and perhaps received a good mark but it’s kind of self-defeating in that they will not have learned much but AI is making it harder to do. Read more

Education top target for malware
You’ve heard of software as a service but guess what? There’s also malware as a service, bad actors can hire malicious bits of code and they’re on their way to a nasty spamming or Trojan campaign, great.
   So cybercrime is easier and easier to do and the education sector continues to be a target for these criminals. Last year, a certain piece of banking malware, Emotet, was particularly virulent and targeted at schools. Read more

Oral language skills predict young children’s success in the classroom and life
Communication, curiosity and conversation are key predictors of young children’s success later in life, according to new best practice resources on early childhood education launched in Brisbane this week.
   The Early Childhood Education Toolkit (ECE Toolkit), launched by Social Ventures Australia-backed education not-for-profit Evidence for Learning, shows communication and language approaches consistently provide benefits for children between the ages of two and five years old. Read more

Meet the Maasai woman fighting to keep girls in school
Working with Women for Change, Dr Kakenya Ntaiya will visit Australia from the 2-9th March 2020 to share her insights into gender equality through education, community transformation programs and the importance of getting men involved to support both the process and the outcomes. Read more