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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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Education

NAPLAN 2024: Every Victorian school ranked

Victoria’s top performing schools have been revealed. Search our graphic to see how your child’s school stacks up.

Education

‘Sacking the boss won’t stop the rot’: Insiders say VCAA issues run deep

Bureaucrats, teachers, experts and political figures have spoken out about the 2024 VCE exam leaks and the subsequent cover-up by the troubled curriculum authority — and they say the problems run deep.

Education

Victoria has more than a million students. Picture: iStock

Dux or dunce? What 10 years of Labor has done to education

While there have been improvements in staff-pupil ratios, school facilities and teacher attrition rates, Victoria’s status as ‘The Education State’ is being sorely challenged.

Advice

Siri, please teach my kid: How parents are turning to AI tutors

Cash-strapped parents are turning to artificial intelligence tutors to educate their kids amid the cost-of-living crisis, but experts have warned lessons could potentially go “off rails”.

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Teenage girl have problems at school, senior student, exams, subject choices. Istock image

VCAA fail means dud exam question won’t be counted

A VCE exam will be marked out of 79 not 80 because a question that was rewritten after the leak scandal was so poorly worded it was “invalidated”.

EXCLUSIVEEducation

Victorian students are being threatened with tasers, having their heads shoved into toilets and humiliated with naked photos as part of a disturbing new social media trend dubbed “lacking”. source: Instagram ,

Assaults, knives on campus among critical incidents at our schools

School leaders are risking their own safety and wellbeing as critical incidents at schools increase at an alarming rate, including violent security threats from parents and students.

Police & Courts

‘Her love knew no bounds’: Leading businesswoman killed in farm accident

The high-profile marketing exec has been remembered as “the light in every life she touched” after she died in a tragic accident at her property near Daylesford.

Education

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 26, 2021: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Melbourne University Campus in Carlton. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

‘Living high’: University chiefs earning more than the Premier

The salaries of some of Victoria’s university chiefs are higher than that of Premier Jacinta Allan, as the eye-watering amount the institutions have forked out on consultants is also revealed.

VideoEducation

Students filmed themselves burning books and uniforms as they celebrated the end of the VCE exams.

VCE students burn books in fiery end to controversial exam period

Year 12 students have set fire to their uniforms and books while lashing out at the exam authority following the leaked questions scandal.

updatedEducation

‘Data’, performance to be key in review of students’ marks after VCE exam leaks

More detail has been released about how students’ marks will be reviewed in the wake of the VCE exam leaks as yet another embarrassing leak was revealed.

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