The Educator July 21, 2025 by Jonalyn Cueto

The president of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association, Andy Mison, has called for a stronger partnership between the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) and the education profession, warning of ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions being imposed from afar.

His comments, published on the ASPA website, follow the announcement of a review of the national evidence-based education research body.

Mison said AERO needed to broaden its concept of evidence to “genuinely include the professional knowledge of teachers and leaders” and that while professional expertise is the most crucial form of evidence, “it seems to be the one most undervalued in the current discourse”.

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