AARE blog, Pat Thompson October 32, 2025
The review of the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) is due to report in May 2026. However, the federal minister Jason Clare has just announced the formation of the new Teaching and Learning Commission, bringing AERO together with ACARA, AITSL and Education Services Australia. It is timely to think about what a new AERO might do.
It is no secret that AERO was modelled on the English Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF). Both organisations generate evidence and provide accessible advice to schools. However there are significant differences between the two organisations – and three key things that a renewed AERO might learn from EEF. . .
…As AERO moves into a new national organisation it is time for an explicit refocus on the causes of inequitable educational outcomes, for its knowledge production processes to be transparent and meet peer review standards and for it to work very systematically with schools, colleges and universities. These moves would help to ensure that Australian educators can rely on the highest quality of evidence now and in the future.
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