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Rebecca BorgEducation Reporter

Rebecca Borg is an education reporter for the Herald Sun. She previously worked as a cadet journalist in Sydney with the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph and The Australian, before doing a six-month stint as a Melbourne-based reporter for news.com.au. After a short stint as a digital breaking news reporter for the Herald Sun, Rebecca moved into her current role where she covers childcare, school and tertiary education stories, as well as education-related research.

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Tertiary

Speech pathology, pathologist with young girl. Picture: Pixelshot

Allied health students demand end to placement poverty

Psychology, speech pathology and physiotherapy students are demanding they be paid for their mandatory placements after their classmates in nursing were promised weekly paychecks.

VIDEOTertiary

Terrified university students are wearing personal alarms and business owners are locking their doors during daylight hours amid escalating crime and anti-social behaviour in Melbourne’s west. Picture: Supplied

Vic Uni students wear alarms as crime escalates in Footscray

Shop owners in Footscray are locking their doors between customers and some Victoria University students are wearing personal alarms amid a surge in violent behaviour on the streets in Melbourne’s west.

exclusiveTertiary

Photo is for weekend investigation story on Shincheonji Church of Jesus "cult" preying on vulnerable university students.SCJ recruiters loiter in Victorian universities, especially targeting people at University of Melbourne, RMIT, Monash and La Trobe. Picture: Jason Edwards

How young Melb students escaped from the clutches of pseudo-religious group

Former members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus have exposed how the South Korean group loiters in halls at Melbourne universities to entice recruits into “a toxic, abusive relationship”. Read our special investigation.

Education

Students are being urged to act with caution following a rise in complaints about the Shincheonji Church of Jesus coming onto university campuses to recruit new members. Picture: Supplied ,

Warning over ‘dangerous’ cult-like group preying on uni students

Melbourne universities have been warned about a “secretive” cult-like group recruiting vulnerable students and “brainwashing” them into abandoning their lives to join their church.

Victoria

High-five ban: Thousands rally behind beloved lollipop man

An online petition to reinstate popular crossing supervisor John Goulden’s high-fiving tradition has gained over 1000 signatures overnight.

Victoria

Won’t somebody think of the children! High-fives banned at school crossing

Yarra Ranges Council has banned a popular Mt Dandenong Primary School’s lollipop man from high-fiving students after one parent complained.

Education

School girls using tablet computers for interactive online learning in the school classroom

Victorian students sink to new lows in NAPLAN testing

Almost 300,000 Victorian students are failing to meet basic standards in maths and English, with many struggling to use punctuation such as commas and full stops.

Education

Boys fall behind girls in reading at high school. Picture: iStock

High school boys trail girls in reading but dominate in other area

NAPLAN results reveal a major performance gap between boys and girls in reading in year nine but there is one measurement where the boys outperform the girls.

Tertiary

University of Melbourne Student pro-Palestine supporters will rally near 757 Swanston Street as 21 students prepare to face the start of academic misconduct meetings following the encampment and sit in at the Arts West Building last month. Picture: Jason Edwards

Pro-Palestine protesters return to Melbourne universities

Determined pro-Palestine activists are back at Melbourne universities, with police called to Swinburne’s Hawthorn campus this week after receiving reports of “inappropriate behaviour”.

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Alarm for students after attempted abductions in Toorak

School students in some of Melbourne’s most prestigious suburbs are being warned to travel in groups following two attempted child abductions.

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