Traditional subjects alone ‘insufficient’
TEACHING the traditional subjects alone is no longer sufficient preparation for students leaving school.
Education
Field open as hometown bubbles burst
IT was the size of the footy field at Shannon Moloney’s new school that convinced him to head to boarding school in Sydney.
Families face wait for NAPLAN reports
STUDENT results in the national literacy and numeracy tests will be delayed for about one month after an error was discovered in the printed reports.
Anti-Coalition comments in letters
STATE school newsletters in Tasmania have included material critical of Coalition election policies.
ALP could be without leader for weeks
UNDER new Labor Party leadership rules, it could take the ALP weeks to elect a new leader in opposition.
Help teachers improve, says reformer
INSTEAD of sacking underperforming teachers, they should be helped to improve, according to a leading education reformer.
Bold plan opens door to soft diplomacy
The New Colombo Plan is ambitious but informed, and has generated remarkable goodwill from the usually suspicious.
TAFEs left to wither on the vine
VOCATIONAL training has become an integral part of the campaign.
Research funding ‘off agenda’
LABOR has launched a scathing attack on the “anti-science” Coalition, saying its pledge not to cut medical research lacks credibility.
Set our curriculum free
OUR core values as a nation are being lost in the educational shuffle.
COAG agreement breached
THE federal government appears to be joining the states in breaking a training commitment signed at COAG in April last year.
Training markets in a bind
FEDERAL Labor will not say whether Kevin Rudd’s intervention in TAFE constitutes an 11th-hour conversion on training markets.
ALP eyes more pacts to unlock places
A RE-ELECTED Labor government will make greater use of direct agreements with universities.
Pyne warns teachers on reform
COALITION powerbroker Christopher Pyne has warned the teachers union he is up for a fight.
Back to board on foreign students
LABOR will create a council to devise a new strategy to protect Australia’s $15 billion international education industry.
Rethink history syllabus, says Abbott
TONY Abbott says the history curriculum underplays the heritage of Western civilisation.
Room for offensive views
ANTI-BDS action attacks free speech.
Weatherill resists Rudd call
KEVIN Rudd’s demand for the states to increase funding to TAFE or risk a federal takeover is being resisted by South Australia.
Rudd threatens TAFE takeover
KEVIN Rudd has deepened a dispute over technical education by threatening a federal takeover of the TAFE system.
Tradies to get extra $500 to buy tools
APPRENTICES would get an extra $500 to buy tools under Rudd’s pitch to increase the number of young workers completing training.
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