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Review of Initial Teacher Education to Lift Australian School Standards
Over the past two decades, Australian school standards have steadily declined. To help combat this, Federal Education Minister, Alan Tudge, has announced a review of initial teacher education.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As part of an ambitious plan to return Australia to the top group of education nations globally by 2030, the review will address two key questions: how to attract and select high-quality candidates into the teaching profession and how to prepare them to become effective teachers.
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Mental health experts and principals are pushing for a new national benchmark of one school-based psychologist for every 500 students across Australia to address the alarming rates of mental illness among children.
About 600,000 school-aged children - about one in seven - experience a mental health disorder each year with 20 per cent of those starting primary school education showing high levels of emotional problems.
Mental health experts want a new national benchmark of one school-based psychologist for every 500 students.
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Improving teacher quality will be the key element in the Federal Government’s efforts to raise the academic performance of Australian students.
On Thursday, Education Minister Alan Tudge launched a review of initial teacher education courses, which he said was the most critical element in arresting declining learning outcomes – particularly in reading, maths, and science.
The six-month review will be conducted by a panel of education experts, led by former Department of Education and Training secretary Lisa Paul.
Malcolm Elliott, president of the Australian Primary Principals Association, Derek Scott, 2019 Australian School Principal of the Year awardee, and Bill Louden, emeritus professor of education at the University of Western Australia, were also appointed as committee members.