Natasha Bita

Natasha Bita is a multi-award winning journalist with a focus on free speech, education, social affairs, aged care, health policy, immigration, industrial relations and consumer law. She has won a Walkley Award, Australia’s most prestigious journalism award, and a Queensland Clarion Award for feature writing. Natasha has also been a finalist for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award and the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. Her reporting on education issues has won the NSW Professional Teachers’ Council Media Award and an Australian Council for Educational Leaders award. Her agenda-setting coverage of aged care abuse won an Older People Speak Out award. Natasha worked in London and Italy for The Australian newspaper and News Corp Australia. She is a member of the Canberra Press Gallery and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Contact her by email natasha.bita@news.com.au

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23/8/24: Year 2 students at Woolooware Public School: Olivia, Elke, Teacher, Jill Grant, Max, Darcy (longHair), Louis and Jedd in the school library reading books. John Feder/The Australian

States dragging their heels on key step to literacy

The National Children’s Commissioner has drawn the line between illiteracy and youth crime.

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ExclusiveEducation

backside graduation hats during commencement success graduates of the university, Concept education congratulation. Graduation Ceremony ,Congratulated the graduates in University during commencement.

‘Degree-factory unis fail the best, carry the worst’

Australian universities are ‘degree factories’ that dilute academic standards through group assignments, woke teaching and cheating, a conservative think-tank has warned.

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educationEducation

NSW Education Minister Prue Car, Australian Education Union federal president Corenna Haythorpe and Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll are in Canberra to call on the Albanese Government to raise its school funding contribution to 25 per cent at a cost of $12 billion over the next decade. Picture: Supplied

‘Hypocrite’ states try to shake down feds on school funding

Sniping state education ministers have been branded ‘hypocrites’ for demanding more commonwealth cash while short-changing their own public schools.

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SchoolsPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos.July 31, 2024.Deputy Premier and Education and Early Learning Minister Prue Car announces the NSW Government and South Australian GovernmentÃs Social Media Summit at Condell Park High School. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

States rebel over federal funding for public schools

A grassroots election fight over school funding will kick off when teachers, principals and students descend on Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

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exclusivePolitics

Caps to target Chinese uni students

Wealthy universities that profit from enrolling too many Chinese students will be penalised as the federal government dumps a ministerial direction it admits is ‘throttling’ tertiary education.

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NAPLANEducation

Private schools ‘gaming’ NAPLAN

Private schools are ‘gaming’ NAPLAN results by encouraging struggling students to skip the literacy and numeracy tests, research across thousands of schools reveals.

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‘IS AI HELPING YOU ON THIS CALL?’Nation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 10, 2023: Google, Director Government Affairs and Public Policy Australia & NZ, Lucinda Longcroft at the Law enforcement capabilities in relation to child exploitation inquiry hears from Google and Twitter at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Google executive left red-faced as chatbot interjects in Senate hearing

Senators grilled Lucinda Longcroft after her ‘Google Assistant’ interrupted – and appeared to offer instructions – during her opening statement on the adoption of AI | Watch the video.

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NAPLAN 2024Education

EDUCATION: A young girl doing maths on the board as her teacher watches smiling

Literacy, numeracy failure a ‘ticking time bomb’ for work

Australia’s hi-tech employer groups say poor NAPLAN results are a ‘ticking time bomb’, warning that students’ failure to master maths and English will sabotage jobs and growth.

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NAPLAN 2024Nation

Boy learning to write alphabet characters at school Picture: Istock

NAPLAN failures ‘a bad sign for our country’: bosses

Shocked by the sheer number of Australian children failing to reach literacy and numeracy standards, employer groups have called for changes.

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TestsPolitics

Epic fail: students falling fast on NAPLAN

At least 400,000 Australian children have fallen so far behind at school they require catch-up tutoring, as governments squabble over the reforms and funding required to reverse decades of educational decline | Read the NAPLAN results.

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