Education
Government overseer to watch over VCE exam development after bungle
This year’s VCE exams will be developed under the strict supervision of a government-appointed monitor after tests were compromised in the state’s 2024 exam leak scandal.
- by Caroline Schelle
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‘This will split our suburb in two’: Parents’ anger over school catchment changes
Inner Sydney High has its first year 12 cohort doing the HSC this year – and it is already feeling the popularity pinch.
- by Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
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Private schools
Head of top Sydney private girls’ school to retire after 30 years
The SCEGGS school board announced Jenny Allum would retire at the end of this year after serving as principal since 1996.
- by Lucy Carroll
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Education
As big tech abandons truth, teachers like me must be the fact-checkers
With the end of fact-checking on many platforms, our young people are exposed to a tsunami of misinformation. Do schools and educators now have a role in pushing back against this tide of fact-free opinion?
- by Fiona Richards
‘Big breakthrough’: Private schools to disclose teachers’ extra hours under new deal
Private schools will need to be upfront with teachers about how many hours they will need to spend running extracurricular activities under a new pay deal.
- by Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll
The students being left behind by WA’s private schools
A new analysis of data has shown more than 80 per cent of the state’s least-advantaged students were enrolled in a public school.
- by Holly Thompson
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Education
‘Shocked’: College ordered to shut after students accused of cheating
The vocational education watchdog has been on an aggressive campaign to clean up the sector. One college says it has been wrongly targeted.
- by Daniella White
Then and now: Summer ends, school resumes and twins tell their tales
The Age caught up with twins 11 years after they were first featured on the front page.
- by Alex Crowe
School readiness programs are booming. But are children being overprepared?
They are designed to smooth a child’s transition to kindergarten. Educators say they’re also supporting parents.
- by Christopher Harris
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State schools to move to phonics earlier, after reading ‘grenade’ blows up
Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how Victorian children should be taught to read.
- by Bridie Smith
Opinion
Teaching
I love my children, but sheesh it’s time they went to school. These holidays have gone on forever
If parenthood is about anything, it’s about marking milestones. First steps, first words, first teeth. The first day of school can’t come quickly enough.
- by Michael Ruffles
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