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Teachers are NOT under-qualified and NOT under-educated: here’s what is really happening   By Nan Bahr and Donna Pendergast and Jo-Anne Ferreira Australian teachers are doing well. They are [...]

Update: Excellent interview with Professor Aspland on ABC Triple J’s The Hack. The story starts at 9.47, Professor Aspland is on at 15.11. Education Deans Rebut Ongoing Assault on Teaching [...]

In The Conversation today, ACDE debates the setting of minimum ATARs as proposed by the Shadow Education Minister, Tanya Plibersek. Professor Aspland says: We all want to attract and retain the [...]

The Australian Council of Deans of Education(ACDE) welcomes the appointment of The Honourable Dan Tehan as Minister for Education and looks forward to working in collaboration with his fresh [...]

13 August 2018 The Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) is disturbed by recent media reports that focus on extreme low ATAR entrance scores for teacher education and, in doing so, [...]

The Choosing Our Best study  seeks to describe and map the approaches and mechanisms used by Australian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Providers to select students into courses. It focuses on [...]

Scoping Professional Teacher Experience In 2017,  the ACDE’s Network of Academic Directors of Professional Experience undertook the largest study on the status of Australian professional [...]

Daniel Steele, a primary school educator with a masters degree in Educational Leadership, gives an excellent overview of what really goes on during one school day. Read the story on the ABC [...]