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‘Not always transparent and defensible’: Audit slams state school fees
Student Resource Scheme fees generated more than $100 million for state schools last year. But an audit by the Queensland education department found problems.
- Sean Parnell
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‘We support parent choice’: Uproar over NSW schools chief’s push to reconsider private schools
Premier Chris Minns says his government is “certainly not” going to take away options for parents after NSW’s head of public schools questioned if private schools should exist.
- Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
Families pay up to $20,000 to tutor children for select-entry school exams
As thousands of Victorian students prepare for the select-entry schools entrance exam, there are calls for reform to the admissions process and the tutoring industry.
- Noel Towell
NSW Education Department boss questions existence of private schools
Murat Dizdar has slighted his private sector counterparts by suggesting the education system could be better off without Catholic and independent schools.
- Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll
‘Listen to us’: Parents want more power for schools to deal with bullies after son, 8, attacked
Mason Farmer was hospitalised after he was attacked on the playground at a primary school in Perth’s eastern suburbs by a child the same age as him.
- Holly Thompson
Rents soar in Perth’s most in-demand school zones
The cost to rent a house in some of Perth’s most in-demand school catchment areas has ballooned in a year, in one suburb by more than 50 per cent.
- Holly Thompson
Why some school students are learning 60 hours a week
Some schools are offering organised activities 12 hours a day, as parents juggle working and commuting with children’s needs.
- Bridie Smith
Fast times at Cranbourne West: Primary school pupils drive high-powered school project
For the children of Cranbourne West Primary School, human-powered vehicle racing is opening up new opportunities.
- Noel Towell
More gridlock ahead as Olympic builds, booming schools clog busy road
More than 5000 students attend three growing schools on Gregory Terrace, and the congestion will only get worse when construction begins on Olympic venues.
- Felicity Caldwell
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- Education
Brisbane primary school to close to make way for high school students
Parents of the 73 students have been told their school will be shutting down after next year’s classes to allow for construction of a new high school.
- Rosanna Ryan
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