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Antonia O’Flaherty is an education reporter for The Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail. Antonia was previously a graduate journalist with a background in crime and general reporting at a regional daily newspaper in NSW. Antonia received a Clarion award for her work on the Sunday Mail’s Bush Baby Crisis campaign.

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Education

Blurred primary school with parent and children in background.Defocus open house day at for kindergarten students.

GPs, more psychologists moved in to Qld’s struggling schools

GPs will provide free healthcare to students in some of the state’s most in-need schools, as part of a new plan which will also see more mental health professionals in schools.

Schools Hub

St Andrews College Year 9 Students Ethan Bland, Kiavesh Pulo and Byron Page whose plan to revolutionise the use of shark nets by using magnetic fields to deter sharks won them the National final of the young entrepreneurship program 'Future Anything'. Photo Lachie Millard

Qld Year 9 students’ design may revolutionise shark nets

Three year nine boys’ innovative shark net prototype has seen them take out a national entrepreneurship award.

Schools Hub

Middle Park State School Principal Anne Kitchin with students Ruth, Alex, Isabel, Dom, Miles, Poppy, Lila, and Oliver. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Qld schools probed in search for secret to NAPLAN success

Two Queensland schools have improved their NAPLAN results so significantly, they have caught the attentions of the reporting authority in a bid to unlock the secrets of their success.

Schools Hub

Time for school mobile phone ban

Experts are calling for the Palaszczuk Government to mandate a ban on phones in Queensland schools. VOTE IN THE POLL

Education

Griffith University Logan campus to reopen to students in July. Thursday June 4, 2020. Picture Renae Droop

144 uni staff axed just two weeks out from Christmas

A major Queensland university has confirmed 144 positions will be cut in a devastating blow to staff two weeks before Christmas.

QLD News

Emily Thomas, Emilie Springer and Frances Gu collecting toys for yourtown Domestic and Family Violence Refuge Toy Drive, Thursday, December 3, 2020 - Picture: Richard Walker

Huge surge in women seeking DV refuge

A southeast Queensland refuge has been stretched to its limits, with a 35 per cent increase in women and children escaping family violence, prompting a call for kids to donate toys and pyjamas.

Education

Qld students lagging behind in maths, science

Queensland students are lagging behind their counterparts in southern states in primary school mathematics and science, new international test scores show.

Education

HOLD UNTIL WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9: Ferny Grove State School prep students Seb Cairns, 6, Poppy Hoggett, 5, Tanner Chalker, 6, Matilda Hoggett, 5, and Shana Mohammad, 6. Pics Tara Croser.

Preppies celebrate end of toughest of first years

Queensland preppies are relieved to be finished school after a rocky start to schooling after the COVID-19 pandemic slammed the classroom doors shut.

Townsville

There's been more than 22,500 suspensions at North Queensland schools in the last five years.

FULL LIST: The NQ schools with the highest suspension rate

North Queensland state schools have dished out more than 22,500 suspensions over five years – a figure that is “way too high” according to an education expert. SEE HOW YOUR SCHOOL COMPARES>>>

Schools Hub

Interactive search: How your school rates for suspensions

Queensland state schools have issued more than 370,000 suspensions over five years – a figure that is “way too high” according to an education expert. SEARCH THE INTERACTIVE

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