Murat Dizdar is Deputy Secretary, Operations and Performance at the NSW Department of Education. Hear Education Review in conversation with the man who went from a housing commission to Harvard.

What happens when you make teens act like entrepreneurs? The Mitchell Institute's Bronwyn Hinz and Hannah Matus explain.

Associate Professor Alex Martinuik explores a landmark Swedish study on low school grades and suicide.

Jon Berry from the University of Hertfordshire discusses the challenges faced by students and teachers in resisting the modern trend to test and quantify education outcomes.

Notre Dame University's Head of English and Journalism, Professor Camilla Nelson, breaks down what the NSW HSC English syllabus shakeup means for teachers.

Former Queensland Labor MP Karen Struthers has pivoted academia, but that doesn't mean she's forgotten about local communities. Now a Griffith University academic, she is evaluating a youth-led, anti-domestic violence program in Logan.

Construction beats coding for jobs, and the rise of soft skills continues. Those are the two key findings from a recent JobGetter report. Hear its Director, Fiona Anson, tease them out.

Steve Shepherd is the CEO of millennial careers consulting firm, TwoPointZero. The firm surveyed 1,000 young people about their career dreams - both existing and dashed - and the findings were disappointing. Shepherd thinks educational institutions need to do more to get kids on the job track.

USYD's associate professor Susan Colmar co-founded of Memory Mates, a program that helps kids' working memories. In turn, this has proved to boost their academic performance.

Dr Jennifer Baxter, Australian Institute of Family Studies senior research fellow, chats to Education Review about how boys still aspire to 'manly' jobs and girls, more stereotypically feminine ones.