Shorten’s $1.75bn preschool pitch
Bill Shorten has guaranteed to subsidise 600 hours of preschool for 700,000 children and extend access to three-year-olds.
Education
Church to pay for school closure
The Uniting Church will be forced to repay millions in federal grants if it sells an indigenous school to property developers.
Survey points to risks for unis
Rankings agency Times Higher Education says Australian universities are feeling the impact of government funding cuts.
Catholics fight for state cash
NSW Catholic schools are calling on the state government to abandon what they claims are secret plans to cut funding.
Federal research dollars shift from the humanities to engineering, medicine
Engineering and medical research are the big winners in a shake-up of federal research funding, with the humanities taking a hit.
Arndt names to shame uni ‘free-speech bullies’
After being targeted by demonstrators at Sydney University, journalist Bettina Arndt has hit back.
Attendance at preschool key to literacy, numeracy
Boosting remote preschool attendance could increase children’s chances of meeting Year 3 minimum standards.
Abbott plans flying visit to remote boarding facility
Tony Abbott will make his first public venture into a remote Aboriginal school today as special envoy on indigenous affairs.
A sound pathway to literacy
Catholic schools across Queensland will begin trialling a Year 1 phonics check next term, the first outside the government sector.
Minister stands by school funding
The NSW government is not backing down from demands for “needs-based, sector-blind” schools funding.
‘What state doesn’t want more’
Education Minister Dan Tehan admits NSW has the ability to disrupt a new school funding deal with Catholic and independent schools.
It’s homework first at footy club
Caleb Nicholson is taking part in one of the country’s best youth outreach programs, Shepparton’s Rumbalara Football Club.
Catholics warn of poll pain if deal not backed
Catholic schools have warned the Berejiklian government it will face a backlash in the election if it doesn’t back the funding deal.
‘Mindfulness’ won’t hijack lessons
Education Minister Dan Tehan said he will resist pressure to design the national curriculum with a focus on 21st century skills.
PM’s leap of faith on schools
Scott Morrison’s own party in NSW has indicated its ire at the policy shift to end the funding war with the Catholic sector.
Mindfulness is no substitute
Parents don’t send their kids to school to be taught the latest fashionable trends in education.
‘Fees for nothing’ exposed
Parents are paying thousands of dollars to secure a spot at the nation’s most prestigious schools.
Church quits indigenous school
Australia’s third-biggest church pulls out of indigenous education after investigations into a troubled Aboriginal boarding school.
Back school deal, NSW told
Scott Morrison has heaped pressure on NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes, who said the new school funding arrangement was unfair.
Schools deal ‘won’t need states’
As the PM defends the Catholic education funding package Matthias Cormann says it doesn’t need states’ support.
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