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‘We run the school’: The man behind Sydney’s top-performing Reddam House
The for-profit private school is looking to the inner west, Sutherland Shire and lower northern beaches named as potential sites for expansion.
- by Lucy Carroll
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Legal action to prevent terrorised teachers getting help
The Education Department is trying to block a WorkSafe demand for an in-house mental health worker for teachers at a troubled high school.
- by Noel Towell
‘Full-scale offensive’: Sydney University restricts all student protests on campus
Students now need permission to use megaphones and must give three days’ notice for any protests on campus.
- by Daniella White and Lucy Carroll
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Former Shore headmaster takes legal action against school
Tim Petterson left in July 2022 after a review of the school’s culture found new leadership was needed.
- by Lucy Carroll
$1.1 billion black hole: Unis brace for loss of tens of thousands of students
New economic modelling suggests universities are facing a funding shortfall of more than $1 billion under the federal government’s crackdown.
- by Daniella White
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Schools warned off AI-generated student reports and newsletters
Victoria’s new policy on artificial intelligence in schools warns teachers and principals to keep the human touch in assessments and reports.
- by Caroline Schelle and Noel Towell
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Top-band HSC, NAPLAN targets for schools have been scrapped. Now, principals will set new ones
Some principals say removing clear and ambitious targets based on NAPLAN results risks improvement measures becoming too ambiguous.
- by Lucy Carroll
Melbourne teacher falls to death from school roof
The semi-retired school teacher and former principal died after falling through a skylight in Melbourne’s west.
- by Caroline Schelle
2021: Learning to read using phonics
Chelsea Primary has had success with a phonics-based reading system, which they have used since 2019.
The NAPLAN-topping school that says phonics helped get it there
Teaching reading using phonics, which is to be mandatory for state schools, has received strong praise from this primary school in Melbourne’s south-east.
- by Caroline Schelle
The uni rich list: Vice chancellors on $1 million salaries revealed
Australia’s highest-paid vice chancellors are now earning six times their university’s senior professors as the union calls for an inquiry into wage theft.
- by Daniella White and Sherryn Groch
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