Lectures are quickly becoming dead. Well, that's the view of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University Professor Marcia Devlin.

Listen to the podcast for Devlin's key observations on traditional lecturers as well as how learning is changing at the university through the "VU Way".

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At last week's COAG meeting, Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan called on all states and territories to follow Victoria's lead and ban mobiles phones during school hours.

However, many experts and parents disagree with a blanket ban, with many believing an outright ban denies learning opportunities and discourages self-regulation.

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Each year, the Global Teachers Prize names the world’s top 10 educators. This year, just one of them was an Australian. Humanities teacher Yasodai Selvakumaran from Rooty Hill High School in Western Sydney shares her journey leading up to being nominated, and her role as a mentor and advocate.

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Lyn Stone is a linguist, literacy expert and founder of literacy consultancy group, Lifelong Literacy. She spoke to Education Review about the need for teachers to be better equipped for literacy instruction so she can one day be made "redundant".

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In his final installment of the Studying for Success series, Dr Steven Greene explains the importance of high-stakes tests and some strategies to effectively prepare for them.

These strategies include rigorous planning, identifying your strengths and weaknesses and practising tests beforehand.

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Dr Steven Greene shares his tips about what note-taking is, why it's important and some strategies for doing it well in the third installment of our series on studying for success.

Greene says effective note-taking should be "an accurate record of the class" and will help guarantee success if done correctly.

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John Marsden is a children's book author, educator and founder of two alternative schools in Victoria. His latest book, The Art of Growing Up, is a for-adults manifesto of how today's authority figures are stifling the development of kids. Inside, he puts forward ideas on bullying and other matters that have attracted controversy and criticism, including from the academia. Here, Marsden shares his views.

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Over 60,000 kids in Australia experience significant absence from school due to illness or injury. Joanna Fardell, a team leader on the Kids with Cancer Foundation’s Behavioural Science Unit, says we need to do better at connecting sick kids to their classrooms and classmates.

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Love him or hate him, Mark Latham is always passionate about getting things done, And his latest agenda has been improving NSW's education system, particularly performance- based teacher pay and lifting student achievement across the board. Listen to our summary of Richard Garfield's interview.

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Now a PhD student at Monash University, Stephanie Wescott was one of those 'oft-cited" statistics that left teaching in her fifth year. After writing an opinion piece for the The Age, Education Review spoke to Stephanie about some of education's key concerns and the growing idea "that teachers can;r be trusted to do their jobs".

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