Leaders ‘fail’ over Catholic funding
The sense of frustration in the Liberal Party over Catholic school funding is profound.
Education
Low-score teachers ‘unethical’
Tertiary institutions have an ethical duty to ensure students they enrol are fit to study, former vice-chancellor says.
ATAR content ‘has lost appeal’
The NSW Year 12 curriculum is “boringly prescriptive”, according to Briony Scott, head of a leading private school.
Unis deliver bang for bucks
The elite Group of Eight universities says it creates benefits worth at least five times more than the cost of running its institutions.
Victorian uni probe launched
The investigation will look at institutions who offer education degrees to students with admission scores as low as 17.
‘Most unequal time of the year’
Some experts are keen on stimulating alternatives to the boredom of the break.
Alarm at uni acceptance scores
Students with dismally poor high school results, including an ATAR of 17.9, are being accepted into university teaching courses.
PM schooled amid funding fury
Turnbull forced to intervene a second time to resolve school-funding fallout amid independent principals’ revolt.
Science rock stars woo pupils
Primary school children from around the country are queuing up for selfies with science stars Michelle Simmons and Eddie Woo.
NAPLAN test fiasco ‘makes it invalid’
The Education Minister has been accused of “losing control of his portfolio”, as it tries to prove the validity of the latest NAPLAN.
Education opens door to policing
Sometimes, life hands you a lucky break. At other times you have to make that luck yourself.
Concern over online NAPLAN
There are concerns results of students who sat online NAPLAN may be incomparable to those of the pen-and-paper version.
Kids in war of the words
The phonics versus whole language debate has a new front.
Phones call the shots for young
More than two-thirds of young people check their phones first thing in the morning and before they go to bed, research shows.
Study backs case for phonics
There is “incontrovertible” scientific evidence to back widespread adoption of phonics teaching in classrooms.
Teachers sound off against phonics
More than 14,000 Year 1 students across South Australia will undergo checks from today to ascertain their basic phonics skills.
ALP stocks rise with the wealthy
The Catholic vote ‘walloped’ the LNP in Longman in a trend Labor leader Bill Shorten could repeat for substaintial gain.
Gag order on school funds deal
The Coalition has slapped a secrecy order on its revised school funding model given to Catholic and independent school chiefs.
‘Scandal’ that kids battle to read
Teachers have been urged to set aside ideologies that have hampered the adoption of phonics instruction.
‘We’re failing kids on reading’
A young deputy principal from Sydney’s west has hit out at the inadequacy of teacher training and literacy instruction.
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