Student trauma, violent parents: Teachers’ horrors uncovered
Suicide attempts and threats by school students have affected one in nine principals, a shocking new study shows as teachers detail ‘heartbreaking trauma’ in classrooms.
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University vice-chancellors to have million-dollar salaries slashed
A new university watchdog will peg university leaders’ pay to that of top public servants | See how VCs’ salaries compare to top bureaucrats
Teachers back to school in free retraining scheme
‘The reading wars are over.’ Universities failed to ensure all teachers know how to explicitly teach children to read and write, so now taxpayers are stumping up for free remedial training.
University staff paid more than premiers
Eye-popping pay for vice-chancellors is revealed in a damning new study that blows the whistle on ‘reckless largesse’ and wasteful spending at universities.
Quarter of students mark down unis
The federal Education Department’s latest Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching data reveals that 23.3 per cent were not satisfied with the quality of their entire educational experience.
Free lunch, reading coaches in school pact
Free lunches, literacy coaches and youth workers for public schools will be funded through a $110m spending deal between the federal and ACT governments.
Crackdown on student visas ‘hurting businesses’
‘It’s a lottery.’ The hospitality industry is suffering collateral damage as the federal government slashes student visas.
Religious filter to Catholic chatbot
Catholic schools have shunned off-the-shelf AI products to build their own chatbot that is ‘grounded in Catholic teaching, tradition and theology’.
Bookworm babies ‘do better in kindy’
Children who were regularly read books from birth were more likely to know letters and words and to speak using complex sentences by the age of three, study finds.
Foreign student crackdown to ‘cost local businesses $4bn’
Small businesses will lose billions in spending a year from international students due to the Albanese government’s visa cuts, a new analysis shows | See which electorates will be hardest-hit
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