Repay childcare wage rise: minister
THE Abbott government has asked childcare providers that signed on for a Labor wage rise fund to hand back more than $62 million.
Education
Schools need to lift their game
POOR performance rather than poor backgrounds is the problem.
Uni axes services fee for onliners
UNIVERSITIES should be allowed to compete globally by stripping academic offerings back and cutting fees, a vice-chancellor says.
Scholarships open doors to world
AVEA Sabatino won an indigenous scholarship to a Sydney private school and plans to study mining engineering.
Gonski funding model ‘flawed’
ECONOMIST Henry Ergas has warned modelling used to determine the resource standard of the Gonski education reforms was flawed.
Demographics change the schools game
PARENTS are more mobile and flexible when it comes to education.
Gonski won’t lift school standards
THE evidence points to better teaching, classroom discipline and parental involvement as vital.
Longer school day on the table
AN extended school day will be among a wide range of options examined by the Productivity Commission.
Money ‘no answer to sliding standards’
THE Abbott government has declared that “money is not the answer” to the nation’s slide in global school rankings.
Our kids twice as likely to be behind
A SHORTAGE of maths teachers in Australia adversely affects the learning of one in three students, more than twice the average in the OECD group of industrialised nations.
Labor billions ‘failed students’
THE Coalition says fresh benchmarking of students shows Labor failed the nation’s children despite spending billions on education.
Expert teachers to earn $100,000
TEACHERS in NSW public schools will have to satisfy performance criteria to qualify for higher wage rates.
Labor reversal on $2.3bn savings
LABOR has deepened the political row over education by reversing one of its own policies one day after accusing Tony Abbott of a backflip.
Billions fail to stop slide in schools
AUSTRALIAN teens have slipped further behind their peers overseas in international tests assessing skills in reading, maths and science.
Labor U-turn on education funding
LABOR is refusing to back its own higher education cuts promised to fund its Gonski reforms.
Abbott’s $1b fix in schools uproar
TONY Abbott will pour another $1bn into schools over the next four years to quell a political storm over a breach of promise on education.
New deal seals $1.2bn for schools
THE Coalition says it has done a new school funding deal with the states and territories that restores $1.2 billion removed by Labor.
No broken promises, Abbott vows
TONY Abbott says there will be no broken promises under the government he leads, amid a growing backlash over school funding.
Pyne’s simple lesson on voter betrayal
THE Coalition has shown it cannot be trusted on education funding.
States accuse ‘controlling’ Pyne
EDUCATION Minister Christopher Pyne stands accused by the states of adopting a controlling approach in his policy to schools.
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