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Impressions of Australia’s first Hindu School

Revealed: The plans for Australia’s first Hindu school

On a block of land in western Sydney, Australia’s fastest-growing religious group is planning its first foray into mainstream education.

  • Mostafa Rachwani

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Treasurer Jaclyn Symes, Premier Jacinta Allan and Education Minister Ben Carroll will all be targeted by teacher protests.

Teachers to protest in the streets against school funding cuts

The Australian Education Union wrote to Victorian teachers calling for immediate action against the government’s school funding “con job”.

  • Chip Le Grand
Presbyterian Ladies College in Burwood has a new $85 million aquatic and sports centre.

Private school with $85 million pool gets all-clear for federal cash

Political heat is rising over $15.8 million in federal funding for an exclusive Melbourne girls’ school with a new $85 million aquatic and sports centre.

  • Noel Towell
More than 200 parents seek to appeal their child’s rejection from selective school every year.

Selective school fail: Why NSW has lost control of the beast it created

It’s time to stop prioritising the aspirations of politicians and parents and to focus on the interests of children. It’s time for serious and significant reform.

  • Jordan Baker
The differences between private and public schools are so stark they could be part of different industries altogether.

Allan’s school funding cuts pit underpaid teachers against underresourced students

At every turn, my little public school encountered funding barriers. Now, the government has tossed us into the “too hard” basket.

  • Elsie Flanagan-O'Neill
Parents Melissa Jones, in pink top, with her twins Lauren and Sophie, with Katrina Walker, in black outfit, and her daughter, Scarlett, on Albert Park Road near South Melbourne Park Primary school in Albert Park.

Race-day riches, classroom crumbs: School on GP track pleads for help

South Melbourne Park Primary, on the Grand Prix track, struggles with safety, funding and disruptions while the state spends hundreds of millions on car race facilities.

  • Noel Towell
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Anthony Albanese and Labor promised a lot to voters. Here’s when it should be delivered.

Here’s everything Albanese and Labor promised you – and when you can expect it

Here’s everything we know about the major policies unveiled by Anthony Albanese and Labor – and what you can expect from them in government.

  • Nick Bonyhady and Natassia Chrysanthos
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will link the plan for new vocational training colleges to the Coalition’s other policies on skills and housing.

Coalition makes first major school announcement with training college network

The $260 million pledge to build 12 technical colleges for high school students is a move towards teaching skills rather than pushing students into university.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Zeke Dumbleton, 10, and his mum, Greta, at Parramatta East Public School.

In five years, Zeke has never had a classroom inside his school’s building

Parramatta East Public School, like many in the region, has been over its student cap for years, but now new funding will bring its classes out of demountables.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Teacher Lidia Cummins with grade 1 students at Bentleigh West Primary, where maths is taught in an explicit, systematic way. The school’s NAPLAN results are among the best in the state.

‘Unproven’ teaching methods have failed primary students and teachers

Students’ maths abilities have been compromised over decades, with “faddish, unproven” teaching methods failing to get results. But these schools have found the secret to success.

  • Bridie Smith

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