ACER has announced the appointment of Lisa Rodgers as ACER’s next CEO. She replaces Professor Geoff Masters AO, who is stepping down at the end of August after 36 years at ACER, including 26 years as CEO.

The OECD has appointed ACER to lead the development and implementation of the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) across more than 90 countries and economies. 

ACER will lead the development and implementation of the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ‘Learning in the Digital World’ assessment.

The Graduate Medical School Admission Test (GAMSAT) examination planned for 21 March will instead be run as an online exam at the end of May.

Trials of a new measure of social and emotional skills from the OECD suggest countries will soon have access to internationally comparable information on the wellbeing of their students, delegates to Research Conference 2019 in Melbourne will hear on Monday.

A team from Radford College in Canberra has taken the top honour in the 2018 International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C).