While the state’s independent and Catholic sectors are thriving, Queensland’s state school system has slumped to the third-worst teacher recruitment rate in the country, new data has revealed.
The funding allocations, which range from $420,000 to $15m, will be used to upgrade classrooms, install new playground equipment, and replace temporary demountables.
A prestigious Brisbane private school is on the verge of increasing its range of academic opportunities to its students to “beyond what is available to any other school” of its kind.
They earn wages that eclipse Premier Steven Miles and rival Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, with eye-watering salaries and pay rises that dwarf counterparts in the state system.
A dentist was more than five times the legal blood-alcohol limit when she had to be forcefully stopped from driving by her uncle and a truckie in a dramatic roadside incident north of Brisbane, police allege.
The number of underqualified teachers plugging massive staff shortages is soaring, and university leaders warn it could have serious knock-on effects in Queensland classrooms long into the future.
Members of an established homeless community say they’re being treated as outcasts after a move by a local council they describe as “inhumane”, as the council behind the move offers its explanation for the move.
A former Queensland teacher has revealed the extreme acts of violence that broke her, forcing her to quit after almost 20 years.
In a fresh twist, a group of rogue Teachers Union members protested outside State Parliament against the union leadership’s decision to hold off on the statewide work bans in schools.
Queensland’s peak Jewish body has condemned the display of a banned flag at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Queensland.
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