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4 issues per year
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

Professional Educator is Australia’s premier quarterly education magazine, published for the Australian College of Educators (ACE) by the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Making the link between educational research and practice, Professional Educator reaches practising educators and school leaders, education researchers and policymakers – ACE members and direct subscribers. If you’re reading it you’re one of the many professional educators at the heart of Australian education.

Edited by Dr Steve Holden, Professional Educator brings together the educational research and practice of all educators across all systems, addressing teaching and learning from Kindergarten to university as well as policy and its effects ‘on the ground.’ What does the research say and how can it be applied in the classroom? Find out by reading Professional Educator.

What do our readers say? According to Tim Wright, Headmaster at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore School),‘There is real meat in the articles and I will be drawing attention of many staff to them. There is a lot of fluff in many educational journals and I am really delighted to pick something up that speaks to the professional needs of my school so well.’

British partnership

NFERThe latest on professional development, curriculum development and educational research in Australia is in Teacher magazine, but for the latest from Britain visit practical research for education (formerly known as Topic), published by our British partner, the National Foundation for Educational Research.


PREpractical research for education demonstrates the implications of research for practice and policy. The journal for teachers, principals and other educationalists keen to put research at the heart of their work