The Public Education Foundation announces that its CEO, David Riordan, has informed the Board of his intention to retire at the end of 2024.David has given decades of service to public education, including as a primary school teacher, a TAFE teacher and leader, and as an Australian representative in the international education and training sector, beginning with his involvement on behalf of TAFE NSW with the training of the workforces of the Sydney, [...]

Media release  6 August, 2024 Public school teachers, students, employees, parents and advocates from across NSW have been honoured at the 2024 Public Education Awards. The 132 awardees (listed below) gathered at Sydney Town Hall last night and were celebrated for their outstanding individual achievements, breakthrough school initiatives, community partnerships and major contributions to their school communities. Two champions of public education were also recognised with the presentation of the inaugural Outstanding Advocate [...]

Cobram public school teacher George Allen has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Public Education Foundation’s Teachers Health Early Career Scholarship. George began his teaching career in January 2021 and is a High Abilities Co-ordinator and Science teacher at Cobram Secondary College in regional Victoria. He plans to use the Teachers Health Scholarship to undertake the Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education at the University of [...]

The Public Education Foundation and Teachers Mutual Bank have announced that Katie O'Connell, of St Albans Secondary College, is this year’s recipient of the Public Education Foundation’s Teachers Mutual Bank Victorian Mid-Career Scholarship. This scholarship supports public school teachers in Victoria who have been teaching for between five and fifteen years, with Teachers Mutual Bank providing $10,000 for professional development activities of the scholar’s choice. Katie will be using her scholarship to [...]

Three of Australia’s best and brightest principals have been given the opportunity to undertake a professional education program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education (Harvard) through the Teachers Mutual Bank Principals Scholarship, the Harvard Club of Australia Principals Scholarship and the Public Education Foundation Principals Scholarship. Recognised for their outstanding work in educating the nation’s young minds, the principals will undertake a program at Harvard University, specifically designed to strengthen their [...]