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Both teachers have had their teaching licences disqualified.

WA high school teachers banned for sexualising female students

Court documents have revealed that in both cases, the men’s conduct was “so serious that it is likely to bring the teaching profession into disrepute”.

  • Holly Thompson

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Premier David Crisafulli and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announce the new school funding deal in Canberra.

Queensland investing less in state school students than every other state, except Victoria

Queensland students have been receiving thousands of dollars less in state government funding than their interstate counterparts, data reveals. 

  • Marissa Calligeros
Schools are having to rely on relief teachers.

Not allowed to teach, too valuable to lose: registration delays costing schools

Relief teachers have been called in to plug the gaps left in classrooms by new staff who have been hired but had their approval to teach stalled.

  • Alex Crowe
Year 1 students at Docklands Primary School and the new classroom phonics way of learning.

Phonic boom: The new, faster test for checking youngsters’ reading skills

Six-year-olds across Victoria will have reading skills put to the test this year with a new phonics check, which will help catch struggling students sooner.

  • Caroline Schelle
Prep and year 1 students will no longer sit the English Online Interview.

‘Not fit for purpose’ reading test scrapped for new phonics-based check

A mandatory reading ability test for Victoria’s prep and year 1 pupils that faced criticism over its suitability is being scrapped at the end of this school year.

  • Caroline Schelle
Phonics teaching at Wheelers Hill Primary School.

State schools to move to phonics earlier, after reading ‘grenade’ blows up

Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how Victorian children should be taught to read.

  • Bridie Smith
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The family Ruffles: Vincent, Jai, Kim and Michael.

I love my children, but sheesh it’s time they went to school. These holidays have gone on forever

If parenthood is about anything, it’s about marking milestones. First steps, first words, first teeth. The first day of school can’t come quickly enough.

  • Michael Ruffles
Brighton Secondary College.

‘Incompetent’ Brighton teacher who failed to show up to own hearing banned from teaching

Hoa Tam Trinh, who was sacked from Brighton Secondary College after multiple complaints about his behaviour, skipped a disciplinary hearing accusing him of serious misconduct.

  • Caroline Schelle
The long-awaited audit did not identify any bureaucratic requirements which should be axed.

Managing medications, school refusers: Biggest drains on teachers’ time revealed

NSW Labor promised before the last state election to save five hours of teachers’ time each week. But a new audit doesn’t identify any tasks that can be cut.

  • Christopher Harris
Artificial intelligence can help uni students write essays. But is that such a bad thing?

To AI or not to AI? How chatbots can help revive the university essay

Artificial intelligence could help in writing essays, but only if we take the time to reconsider their history and real purpose.

  • Huw Griffiths

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