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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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Aussie teens’ thinking caps on

Australian teenagers are more creative and imaginative than students in the high-performing economies of Hong Kong or Germany, a new global study reveals. But a top scientist has one reservation.

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educationEducation

Premier Chris Minns visits Girraween Public School. Photo Jeremy Piper

School bell tolls for productivity in landmark teacher deal

Six-figure salary packages for graduate teachers, job-sharing, overtime bans and the right to ignore contact after school hours have been granted in the nation’s most generous pay deal for school teachers.

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Teachers face rape threats as young boys share porn

Kindergarten kids are sharing pornography and molesting classmates while teenage boys threaten female teachers with rape, a disturbing new study shows.

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Higher educationEducation

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University drop-out rates hit record high for Australian students | FULL LIST

Domestic students are dropping out of their degrees at record rates | SEE WHICH COURSES ARE HARDEST HIT

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ExclusiveEducation

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Face-to-face collaboration ‘key to online learning’

As more working students opt for university study online, what’s the secret sauce for success? A Harvard University dean insists collaboration is the key.

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ExclusiveEducation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 8, 2021: Generic of the Physics building of the The Australian National University in Canberra after a team of international scientists, including ANU researchers, unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected. A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected. The discoveries will help solve some of the most complex mysteries of the Universe, including the building blocks of matter and the workings of space and time.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Sackings fear under review of university practices

‘More job losses’ have been threatened by universities as the federal government starts a review of university governance.

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anti-SemitismEducation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 15 2024. International students pose for pictures with the historic sandstone buildings of Sydney Uni, which are surrounded by a pro-gaza & Palestine tent camp. The uni has ordered the pro-Palestinian encampment to pack up and leave campus eight weeks after the tent protest appeared on its lawns. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Sydney Uni lays down law on anti-Semitism

David Thodey, the new chancellor of Australia’s oldest university, has admitted the University of Sydney ‘must do more’ to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism.

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Higher educationEducation

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Top universities to slash 1000 jobs

The job cuts at the University of Canberra are part of a $50m cost-cutting needed by the end of this year.

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immigrationPolitics

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Foreign student visa cuts set to clear Senate

A review of illegal immigration risks from foreign students has been postponed, angering universities desperate for revenue from overseas enrolments. But a Senate committee has given the green light to caps on international student numbers next year.

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commentaryEducation

Kids will pay for union’s selfish sabotage

The Australian Education Union’s boycott of schooling reforms to help students learn is right up there with CFMEU thuggery.

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