$12.7m for childcare regulator to be announced in budget
An additional $12.7m in funding for the Queensland childcare regulator will be announced in this week’s state budget, helping to bolster staff numbers and ensure kids are kept safe.
Education
Islamic college appeals against ‘yelling’ teacher ruling
Fair Work Commission finds it is absurd that a teacher can be sacked for raising their voice at misbehaving students.
Teachers’ pay offer cut back
Queensland’s teachers have been offered a new wage offer that strips back cost-of-living allowances hours after education minister John-Paul Langbroek refused to released a generational review into school resourcing.
Uni not buying ousted leader’s autism defence
The University of Tasmania is refuting a former senior executive’s claims that he was fired as a result of his diagnosis – a claim that centres on varied accounts of his alleged behaviour.
School hires experts to vet speakers after dildo affair
An embattled Melbourne private school has hired the same company used to vet Australia Day honours recipients after its Pride Week speaker’s dildo scandal left parents outraged.
Agtech insights delivered in real time
Students can observe and explore crop and livestock performance, weather and soil conditions, machinery and input usage, sustainability and environmental indicators.
Case for foreign students must address community fears
Ignoring community suspicion that the existing education model puts cash before quality will only convince people who want fewer international students that it does.
Assaults, abuse, delays on list of uni complaints
Poor customer service, the quality of teaching and appeals of academic misconduct findings are the top complaints to the new student ombudsman, while discrimination and racism also feature.
Elite Melbourne private school blames Pride Centre for dildo drama
A top Melbourne private boys school has apologised after students uncovered explicit pornographic content linked to a queer pro-Palestinian Pride speaker.
Watchdog crackdown on ‘unscrupulous’ childcare centres
Mandatory reporting of physical or sexual abuse allegations within 24 hours, a ban on vaping and new policies around filming children will form part of the new rules.
More children start school ‘developmentally vulnerable’
The percentage of Australian children starting school with poor emotional regulation and social skills is the highest since records began in 2009.
Young participants in AI revolution deserve to be safe
We can demand that our children’s interests take precedence over foreign corporate interests.
Uni to review academic’s ‘execute Zionists’ post
The University of Sydney says it will ‘immediately undertake a review’ after a Palestinian academic wrote on social media that he wanted ‘Zionists executed like we executed Nazis’.
Teacher accused of abuse allegedly blamed student for career loss
A high school teacher charged with grooming and sexually abusing a teen student allegedly asked him to alter his police complaint, according to court documents.
Millennial and Gen Z students need more than ivory towers
School-leavers are still dealing with the trauma of Covid lockdowns, they want their university experience to be an antidote to the isolation.
Shorten urges university modernisation
The former Labor leader is one of the first university vice- chancellors to undertake public discussion about the demands of millennials and Gen Z from tertiary education institutions.
Researchers call for education system overhaul
The conservative Page Research Centre says while the return to traditional teaching approaches is welcome, there needs to be a forensic analysis of ‘why Australian school education has reached such a low point’.
More than 4200 students forced to prove legitimacy of care credentials
The cancellation of SPES Education Pty Ltd’s registration has placed doubts over the qualifications of graduates in areas including aged care, disability and early childhood education.
Unis reject regulator’s interim ‘outside agitator’ advice
One university said suggested strategies like student ID checks, body cam surveillance and ‘conditions of entry’ signs would be ‘antagonistic’ to long-held values of freedom across Australian universities.
No better time for us to embrace overseas students
We need to move past a debate riddled with misconceptions. International students are often portrayed as wealthy and taking homes from Australians. The reality is different.
Website shut, lights out: blow for dodgy college run by PM’s dinner mate
The lights are out and website shut at an international college run by a globetrotting millionaire who lauds Anthony Albanese as a leader of ‘vision and courage’.
Unis seek EU escape from Trump
Universities are turning to Europe for certainty on research funding amid Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on higher education, ahead of Anthony Albanese’s potential meeting with the US President.
Kids reluctant to tell teachers about abuse
Fewer than one in five students who experienced family violence disclosed it to a teacher or school counsellor, according to a Monash University study.
‘Hacked’: ANU V-C’s LinkedIn liked ‘highly offensive’ posts
A spokesman for the ANU said Genevieve Bell’s LinkedIn account was ‘compromised’ after certain posts that she had ‘never seen’ were liked.
ALRC ‘not compromised’ over religious school review
Australian Law Reform Commission president Mordy Bromberg has defended its review of discrimination at religious schools, saying the ALRC was ‘not compromised’ in any way.
Seven of the best show other schools the way in maths
Australia’s leading public policy think tank has urged school principals to take a leaf out of the books of seven standout schools and not ‘wait for others to act’ on declining numeracy skills.
Sydney Uni a ‘hazardous workplace’ for Jewish staff, students
A scathing report into anti-Semitism at the university found that a ‘high-risk … workplace environment’ endured for almost a year due to its inaction to eliminate hate.
Coalition softens election stance on foreign student caps
New opposition education spokesman Jonathon Duniam has signalled a softening of the Coalition’s push to cut international student numbers, branding the election policy a ‘blunt instrument’.
Cashing out: Have we hit peak vice-chancellor salaries?
For decades, V-Cs pitched universities as a national resource. But now they appear as giant corporations, focused primarily on their own interests. For institutions that still rely on public funding, it’s a big problem.
Crackdown on international students hits education provider
One of Australia’s biggest private education providers warns its profit will be cut in half as countries around the world ditch the welcome mat for international students.
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