Education
Week of 13 Oct 2026 · 10 min readWhen AI answers, who is learning?
PISA 2025 raises a deeper question for STEM education: can students explain, test and challenge an answer when the machine is no longer beside them?
Week of 14 Oct 2026 · 9 min readInternational students need more than a visa
International education is being recalibrated. The real test is not how many students cross a border, but whether the system makes their journey worth taking.
Week of 20 Oct 2026 · 9 min readThe teacher shortage is a design problem
Schools can fill a timetable and still lose expertise. The teacher shortage is a test of how education systems value, prepare and support the people AI cannot replace.
Workforce
Week of 01 Oct 2026 · 5 min readAutomate or augment? The human-machine choice
The most important AI decision is not whether a task can be automated. It is what human capability must grow when the machine joins the work.
Week of 27 Oct 2026 · 8 min readDon't blame AI for the hiring freeze
Record employment can hide a cooling labour market. Before blaming AI for lost entry-level jobs, leaders need to separate the algorithm from interest rates, wages and geography.
Governance
Week of 07 Oct 2026 · 9 min readThe glass-box mandate: make AI answerable
EdTech and enterprise AI need more than an ethics statement. They need a visible route from data to decision—and someone who can change the outcome.
Week of 10 Nov 2026 · 10 min readSchool AI needs more than a policy
A classroom rule cannot govern a platform update. Australian K–12 AI needs safeguards that follow the learning, the data and the decision—not just the prompt.