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Olivia Jenkins is a crime reporter for the Herald Sun in Melbourne. She has previously covered education and general news.

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Education

Why Aussie kids are so disrespectful

Aussie school kids talk back to teachers, are disruptive, prone to outbursts and have been rated among the world’s worst behaved.

Education

School kids in classroom. Generic (stock) photo of children in a classroom with teacher in background.Picture: iStock

Cops called over disturbing sex acts at schools

Victoria Police has investigated a huge number of cases of sexual touching and sexual harassment at schools, worrying data reveals.

Victoria

Tim and Evette Hadzisavas with their kids Zoe Hadzisavas (15), Christian Hadzisavas , with dog Co Co.Picture:Rob Leeson.

Melburnians worst off after pandemic

A new survey — which has for the first time measured the true effects of Covid on Australians — shows Melbourne was the hardest hit area.

Education

Angela Ferry and her son Nicholas (17). Students at the Pavilion School in Epping are missing up to 20 hours of class time every week, falling behind pupils in mainstream schools who are attending about 27 hours of school weekly. The class time shortfall means the school currently cannot meet the minimum of 25 instruction hours required each week under government guidelines.Members of the school community have told the Herald Sun attempts to receive funding from the Andrews government have failed because the school, dedicated to helping vulnerable students with severe mental health issues, those in the youth justice system and in out of home care, is located in a safe Labor seat. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Claim safe Labor seat is behind school’s troubles

A special school in Melbourne’s north is so crowded students are missing up to 20 hours of class weekly as parents desperately call for funding.

Education

Businessman Ayub Khan has offered a lifeline to the collapsed Colmont school in Kiomore. He has registered a new school with hopes to be up and running by 2023. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Businessman plans to reopen collapsed Colmont School

The failed school in Kilmore could be given a lifeline under a bold proposal to have students back for term one next year.

Victoria

TAFE to pay $33m over botched aviation training

Box Hill Institute must pay aviation students $33m after a court heard teaching standards were so low that a trainee pilot was almost killed.

Education

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 05: The Indigenous Flag is seen flying during the NAIDOC March. Debate has begun around who owns the Indigenous Flag and who can use it under copyright law. The march marks the start of NAIDOC Week, which runs in the first full week of July each year. NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Monash threatens sack over Indigenous training

Monash University staff could be fired if they do not complete a compulsory training program on Indigenous history.

Education

Too much work tired sleepy young woman sitting at her desk with books in front of laptop computer isolated grey wall office background. Busy schedule in college, workplace, sleep deprivation concept

Financial stress driving wannabe teachers to tears

Droves of teaching students have considered dropping out over “debilitating” course fees and unpaid training requirements.

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Deakin University, Burwood Highway, Burwood.Pictures: Janine Eastgate

Deakin Uni at centre of wage theft allegations

The National Tertiary Education Union said Deakin University’s response to claims of wage theft had so far been “appalling”.

Education

Generic image of teacher teaching students inside school classroom.

Call to scrap discriminatory ‘special’ schools

Segregating children with disabilities in special schools has been compared to the Nazi practice of eugenics, leading to a call for all kids to be educated together.

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