The Melbourne Newsroom

Since the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was introduced, urban trees have become valuable for their major role in reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, now a new course will train experts in managing urban forests facing environmental stresses, pests and diseases.

Australia needs to change its priorities to improve student learning outcomes, according to leading education researcher Professor John Hattie.

Dookie College, Australia’s premier agricultural college will celebrate 125 years of education and research this weekend with two days of alumni reunion activities.

Bonus pay for high performing teachers will fail if implemented in isolation, leading educator Professor Stephen Dinham OAM from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education has warned.

School expenditures have increased by 17 per cent from 2001 to 2009, while student performance has declined by 2.5 per cent - equivalent to about one third of a year of schooling – according to a report in September’s Australian Economic Review.

A University of Melbourne expert has called for a greater investment in developing the psychological wealth of young people.

An 87-year-old former teacher from Woomelang in the Mallee will graduate from the University of Melbourne on Saturday (13 August) - 68 years after completing her education course.

Professors Stephen Dinham and John Hattie of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) have been awarded 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Teachers in the VET system need better acknowledgment and validation in recognition of the vital role they play in the complex world of vocational and technical education, according to a leading education expert.

Associate Professor Leesa Wheelahan, from the LH Martin Institute for Leadership in Higher Education at the University of Melbourne said VET teachers worked in a wider variety of workplaces, and with a more diverse range of students than school teachers or university academics.

The current focus on assessment means the public debate is overlooking how schools are engaging young people and preparing them for the future, according to Lyn Yates, Professor of Curriculum in the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education.