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VCE Footscray High School Kinnear Campus, 1 Kinnear Street. Images and footage of the practice exam must not identify students Publishing of footage and photos taken during the practice exam is EMBARGOED until 12.15pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025. Picture: Jason Edwards

‘Unfit for study’: Flu, gastro outbreaks jeopardise year 12 VCE exams

At least four Victorian schools have made alternative arrangements for students who have caught the flu or gastro in the lead-up to exams. Find out what to do if your child is impacted.

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Australian schoolchildren. Picture: The Smith Family

Soaring school costs are pricing struggling families out of education

A plain school jacket cost $30 last year but is now $50. Pants that were $38 are now $52. A tsunami of rising education costs is overwhelming families on struggle street.

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Higher Education

AI is outperforming humans and unis need to catch up: Professor

Unis are obsessed with trying to catch AI cheats but missing the bigger picture – their courses aren’t equipping students for an AI-dominated world, argues a senior academic.

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Art Ave Maria principal Tanya Hutton

Ave Maria principal quits amid leadership probe

The principal of Catholic school Ave Maria has quit her high profile job just months after she faced external review of her ‘damaging’ management style.

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A Warwick childcare centre has reportedly had two educators and a child test positive for Covid within the past week. Picture: lithiumcloud / iStock

More than 4600 children injured at Victorian childcare services

More than 660 Victorian children were locked out or unaccounted for across the state’s childcare services last financial year, with more than 6100 serious incidents reported, a shocking new report has revealed.

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ExclusiveVictoria

Liverpool offers plenty of child care places. Generic childcare, kindergarten, preschool pic.

The ‘lifechanging’ development coming to Victoria’s kinders

Children with disabilities will have more freedom and independence at kinder than before, thanks to ‘lifechanging’ upgrades and renovations taking place at more than 400 centres.

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School children running away. They are wearing uniforms and carrying backpacks. They are having a race. Multi ethnic group with Asian, Caucasian and Aboriginal children. Rear view

Eye-watering costs families set to fork out for 13 years of schooling

Prep students starting private school this year are tipped to cost their parents the equivalent of three average house deposits in fees over 13 years, forcing many to sacrifice holidays and work more hours to foot the bill.

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What your elite Victorian private school says about you - Part one

What your elite private school says about you

Victoria’s elite private schools come with ballrooms, polo pavilions and headline-making scandals. The kids wear blazers and the parents drive Range Rovers. Here is what yours says about you.

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InteractiveGeelong

The Geelong College, for Geelong Advertiser education supplement, February 24, 2022.

Geelong’s richest and poorest schools revealed

Geelong’s richest school pulled in $239.3m in the past five years, while the poorest school’s income was $4.8m for the same time period, an independent analysis has revealed. SEARCH THE LIST

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Sianna Shrestha at Grovedale Kindergarten. Picture: Alan Barber

Free kinder comes at a cost

With the number of local children aged four or younger set to jump by more than 50 per cent by 2041, more than $200m could be needed to build new kindergartens in Geelong.

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