School-care demand soars
THE number of children in before and after-school childcare has risen sharply in the past three years.
Education
Testing times for education
EVIDENCE shows that throwing more money at schools doesn’t raise standards.
States abandon PM on schools
PREMIERS will fight Julia Gillard over school funding reforms, forcing her to face an election while defending public school spending cuts.
States reject Gillard’s Gonski reforms
JULIA Gillard has failed to gain the agreement of any of the states for her Gonski school funding reforms.
Napthine bows to teachers on pay
VICTORIAN teachers have been handed windfall pay rises of up to 20.5 per cent after the Napthine government caved in yesterday.
School funds model ‘favours affluent’
THE federal government’s new school funding model was criticised yesterday as being fundamentally flawed.
Uni cuts a risk to teacher quality
MONASH University vice-chancellor Ed Byrne has warned that cuts to universities could come back to bite schools.
Funding cuts a concern for all
THE voices criticising the federal decision have been loud and persistent: students, university staff and vice-chancellors.
Talk of Asian Century just that
EDUCATOR Marnie Hughes-Warrington is having to turn away students keen to learn Asian languages such as Chinese and Hindi.
Stung by fair-weather friendship on money
THE Gillard government’s latest cuts to higher education funding are again ad hoc in nature and execution.
Education funding plan wins some support
TONY Windsor and Rob Oakeshott have backed Labor’s Gonski reforms and higher education funding cuts to help pay for the school funding overhaul.
Rich tipped to ignore fee discount loss
RICHARD Willder says the “affluent groups” won’t be deterred by the scrapping of a 10 per cent discount on fees paid in advance.
Method makes underdog status a plus
THE extra $300m WA stands to gain under the new school funding system is on par with that to much smaller Tasmania.
Uni cuts give Labor member bitter taste
KARA Hadgraft says the decision to rip $2.3 billion out of higher education and student support makes her ashamed of the party.
Coalition issues deal ultimatum
THE opposition won’t support Labor’s $14.5bn school funding reforms the states and territories fail to sign up to the new model.
Schools in WA to lose $760m
SCHOOLS in WA stand to lose about $760 million in federal funding after Premier Colin Barnett yesterday ruled out signing up to the new system.
States will struggle to find money
STATES are crying poor over the federal government’s demand that they contribute to the school funding package.
New model grabs from existing program
MORE than $2 billion in current education programs will be rolled into the $14.5bn funding pool to pay for the new school reforms.
Fears disabled ‘left behind’
ADVOCATES for disabled children fear those students will be left behind by the school funding reforms.
PM aims to pass Gonski plan before poll
JULIA Gillard has vowed to have her Gonski school reform package legislated before the election, despite some states’ hostile reaction to the plan.
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