Attracting professionals to teaching has come to be seen as an ideal, if it can be done, you're going to access staff that have experience at the top of a profession and are committed enough to education to stay the course.
   Making the change to a new job mid-career isn't easy but two teachers from Australian Christian College Moreton managed to do it, becoming valued members of the school's community. Read more

The high-profile cyber breaches that have dominated the news recently overshadow the hundreds of thousands of phishing attempts and cyber rorts that have come to be a common, almost everyday occurrence.
   There is no easy fix, hiring a cybersecurity expert is difficult for corporations and near impossible for a school, they're hard to come by and usually very well remunerated. What do you do?
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Respectful Relationships Education Needs Support

Teachers can play a central role in educating students about respectful relationships but often find themselves behind the eight ball because of a lack of resources and support.   
   If it is to achieve its goals, there needs to be greater top-down coordination, more teacher training and better evaluation systems to improve respectful relationships education (RRE) in Australian schools and encourage change. A Monash University study analysed respectful relationships and found great inconsistencies in the way RRE was delivered.
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Research shows that humanitarian migrants, who have been forcibly displaced from their homelands, have much higher levels of psychological distress than those who have not had this experience. The impact on children is severe and varied - during the refugee journey alone most will experience limited or no access to health care, clean water, or sanitation; disconnection from family, friends, and the broader community and disrupted schooling. Read more

You can't be what you can't see and for students who hadn’t previously thought of university as an option, Charles Darwin University's (CDU) Children’s University (CU) is changing ideas of what their futures might hold.
   Now in its fourth year, a record number of young scholars graduated from the program this month and Children's University activities are designed to have links to university learning and courses. Read more

Melbourne's street art is world famous and students will be able to get amongst it through a project planned for 20th November.
  Artists Mike Makatron and Karena Bravo will work with up to 40 high school students from various cultural groups to paint a mural on a street-facing wall at 83 Dover St in inner city Cremorne.
   The piece is Themed 'Cultures without Borders 2' and will teach young people about multiculturalism. Read more