Minister backs staff as school scraps visit
Victorian Education Minister James Merlino has defended his department after a school cancelled a student camp in Melbourne.
Education
Research cash bought votes: unis
Top research universities say the government is using research cash to buy votes in the regions.
Top children’s authors clash over literacy
Mem Fox and Jackie French have clashed over the perennially charged topic of how to teach children to read.
School cancels city camp
A Yarra Valley school has come under fire for contradicting government advice to carry on as normal in the wake of Friday’s terror attack.
Push for gay students inquiry
A bill to stop discrimination against gay students will hit parliament by the end of the month, as Labor pushes for a Senate inquiry.
‘It was Hitler’s favourite’
A Victorian high school employee took a cake decorated with a swastika and Nazi memorabilia to a history lesson.
Archbishop ‘sorry’ for distress
Glenn Davies has apologised for the “distress” caused by a letter calling on the government to defend religious freedoms in schools.
‘Grudging’ Stokes signs Gonski 2.0
An extra $9.4 billion for state government schools in NSW over the next decade sees Education Minister begrudgingly agree.
Vic Labor’s 100 school pledge
A re-elected Labor government will build 100 new schools in eight years, in an appeal to parents frustrated by crowded classrooms.
Uni backs off grants accusation
La Trobe University has backed away from its explosive claim about federal funding agency the Australian Research Council.
State locks in $700m sweetener as it signs on for schools deal
South Australia has become the first state to sign up to the Commonwealth’s new schools reform agreement.
Religious school freedoms ‘broken’
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has warned existing legal protections for faith-based schools are “broken’’.
Muslims back church on school loos
A prominent Muslim says the Islamic community supports the Presbyterians on proposed anti-discrimination law changes.
Push to teach gender equity at preschools
Preschool educators are being advised to explicitly teach gender equity to children in their care.
Church warns PM against messing with gender Church warns PM on gender
The ability of religious schools to insist on separate facilities for boys and girls may be open to legal challenge, church warns.
Bullying costs kids up to a year
Kids who experience persistent emotional and behavioural problems, or bullying, lose up to a year’s learning.
Unis ‘fail to deliver’ job-ready grads
The failure of universities to deliver job-ready students is being investigated by the Productivity Commission.
Tehan takes sting out of research fund refusals
Universities have welcomed Dan Tehan’s pledge that any future ministerial decision on grants will not be kept secret.
Anglican schools’ ‘ethos’ concerns
Sydney Anglican grammar school Shore head Tim Wright says religious freedom protections are inadequate and poorly framed
Tehan dodges gay teacher rights
Dan Tehan sidesteps the issue of gay teachers’ employment rights, despite pleas from top Anglican schools to protect their “ethos”.
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