Media Releases

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Launched, 26 October 2007
Media Release, Friday 26 October 2007
The University of Melbourne is revolutionising higher education in Australia, becoming the first Australian university to introduce a comprehensive graduate school model of education.

New problem gambling research centre launched
Media Release, Tuesday 9 October 2007
The Problem Gambling Research and Treatment Centre – a joint initiative of the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Victorian Government – will receive core infrastructure funding of $4.2 million over four years, and access to a range of other program and research funding.

Launch of student wellbeing resource
Tuesday 18 September 2007
A new student wellbeing online resource to assist teachers, school leaders, parents and the wider community in Victoria has been devloped as a joint venture between the Catholic Education Office Melbourne (CEOM) and the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education.

To be or not be … a trained teacher of Shakespeare?
Wednesday 25 July 2007
The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education will teach a new postgraduate qualification in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, equipping teachers to teach Shakespeare in schools.

Is Australia ready for the Asia-Pacific education revolution?
Monday 4 June 2007
A leading Australian education analyst has questioned whether Australia is ready for the coming Asia-Pacific century in education and research, ahead of a conference of deans of education from across Asia and Australia, to be held at the University of Melbourne next week.

Education deans still working on improvements to teaching and teachers
Monday 28 May 2007
Education administrators throughout Asia and Australia agree that the quality of teachers and teaching needs improvement, but are still unsure how performance can be improved, according to Director of the South East Asian Ministers’ of Education Organisation (SEAMEO), Dr Edilberto de Jesus.

Knowledge Revolution disappoints with assault on reason: Barry Jones
Monday 28 May 2007
The Knowledge Revolution, which ought to have been a countervailing force to fundamentalism has in practice been the “vector of change” that has brought about an assault on reason, according to Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Dr Barry Jones.

Top achievers choose teaching
Thursday 3 May 2007
With ENTER scores in the mid to high 90s, new students at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education show that top achievers are still choosing teaching.

Faculty of Education home to new $10 million higher education institute
Tuesday 1 May 2007
A new institute, hosted at the University's Faculty of Education, is set to train the next generation of leaders of Australias $25 billion higher education sector.

Stories a powerful tool for creating a better future
Thursday 19 April 2007
Young people need to be given more opportunities to create positive stories about the future, according to a new report on the hopes and fears of young Australians.

A website for pre-school teachers aims for equity and fairness in the classroom
Wednesday 20 December 2006
The Faculty of Educationís Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood (CEIEC) has won the Victorian Multicultural Commission Victoria's Awards for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs for their Cultural Diversity Resource (on-line and CD).

Collaborative partnership to investigate how adolescent illness disrupts schooling
Tuesday 12 December 2006
A collaboration between the University of Melbourneís Faculty of Education, the Royal Childrenís Hospital (RCH) Education Institute and the Centre for Adolescent Health will track young people whose schooling is disrupted by illness or accident. The project will study adolescents over a two-year period to chart their experiences, identity-making and social connectedness.

Sustainability Victoria awards hero teacher
6 December 2006
Andrew Vance, a University of Melbourne teaching graduate, now working as the Environmental Programs Coordinator at Melbourne Girls School, has won the Sustainability Hero Award for Adults in the 2006 Sustainability and Waste Wise Schools Awards.

Teens who 'bite back' more likely to be bullied, says study
28 November, 2006
A University of Melbourne study has found that the risk of peer victimisation is 1.4 - 2.6 times greater among young people who behave in reactively aggressive ways.

Researchers engage preschoolers to unlock learning secrets
Tuesday 21 November 2006
The first day of school is a pivotal moment for children and parents alike, but a new Australian research program hypothesises that the foundations of learning success are set much earlier.

Primary students enter stage left: Science is the star in this drama
Wednesday 8 November 2006

Same numbers – different methods: learning maths has a cultural dimension'
Friday 6 October 2006

Dean's lecture series: Lynne Kosky presents 'Victorian Public Education - The way forward'
Thursday 5 October, 2006

New plan gives little kids big voices in Council decisions
Wednesday 27 September, 2006

Shaping our youth schooling plays a greater part than simply educating, research finds [pdf]
Friday 1 September 2006
What impact does school have on the socialisation and development of young people? Professor Lyn Yates’ book, Making Modern Lives, explores this question.

You wouldn’t read about it!
Discarding convention to evaluate an innovative youth arts program [pdf]
The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE) has played a valuable role in evaluating the success of a local community arts project. GET MADE was an innovative 20 week community art program aimed at re-connecting young people with learning via a practical arts program.

Divided by geography, united by humanity [pdf]
What’s the relationship between a small research centre at the University of Melbourne and the devastating earthquake in Yogyakarta in May this year?

Melbourne graduate teaching in ‘virtual classroom’ [pdf]
Benita Finanzio, a Bachelor of Teaching graduate from the University of Melbourne, is engaged as a ‘virtual teacher’ …is this the way of the future?

Melbourne Dean of Education goes back to Balwyn High as ‘Principal for a Day’
Wednesday 16 August 2006
The University of Melbourne’s Dean of Education, Professor Field Rickards, enjoyed a first-hand experience of principal duties at Balwyn High School on Thursday 17 August, as part of the national Principal for a Day program.

Preschoolers' poorly prepared for living in our culturally diverse nation
Thursday 1 June 2006
Until recently, little has been known about how young Australians construct their cultural and ‘racial’ identities - despite consensus that Australia remains one of the most diverse countries in the world.
A group of researchers led by Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton in the Faculty of Education’s Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood (CEIEC) are set to shed some light on this otherwise under researched area.

Education students take soccer to schools
Thursday 13 April 2006
Bachelor of Education students help primary school students to develop their inter and intrapersonal skills through the medium of sport.

Masters Student Appointed School Principal at 30
Thursday 30 March 2006
Master of School Leadership student Tina Barnett, has accomplished a lot in her thirty years.

Learning difficulties may mask giftedness
28 February, 2006
Students who are disengaged from learning, hate school and achieve way below their potential may in fact be creative, complicated thinkers whose 'giftedness' is being overlooked, according to education experts at the University of Melbourne.

Former OECD Director heads up new University of Melbourne Research Institute
Tuesday 21 February 2006
The University of Melbourne has appointed internationally renowned educator and 2006 Federation Fellow, Professor Barry McGaw to lead its new Melbourne Education Research Institute (MERI) located in the University’s Faculty of Education.

Joint Chairs in Higher Education Announced
Tuesday 24 January 2006
Two leading Australian higher education experts - Professor Richard James and Professor Simon Marginson - have been appointed to Chairs in Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.

International classroom research challenges assumptions
Monday 1 August 2005
A Melbourne educator has advised the education community to give higher priority to the findings of international classroom research challenging assumptions such as 'teacher-centred'‚ or 'student-centred'‚ education practices.

Monolingual English speakers may be losers in the globalised world
Tuesday 12 July 2005
A language and literacy expert has cautioned that monolingual English speakers may not fare as well in the globalised world as those who speak other languages as well.

Certificate in International Baccalaureate Primary Years
Friday 8 July 2005
In a first for the Asia Pacific region, the University of Melbourne will launch a postgraduate certificate in international education for teachers.