Gold star for plan to improve teaching
THE new blueprint should be a model for others for how to achieve education reform.
Education
Napthine finds extra $200m
VICTORIAN Premier Denis Napthine has tipped $200 million extra into the overhaul of the TAFE sector.
Scheme to improve teaching standards
THE Gillard government is to spend $12.4 million getting the best university maths and science faculties to help train teachers.
Design delays medical research centre
THE South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute has been delayed because of complications with its design.
Deans ‘have nothing to fear’
THE intervention to improve the quality of teaching courses is not a reflection of university training standards, faculty deans say.
Dawkins proposal to license colleges
THOUSANDS of colleges could lose their registration under a new training system proposed by Keating era Treasurer John Dawkins.
Labor defends indigenous policy
LABOR has defended its policies after Alexander Downer called for indigenous children to be moved into boarding schools.
Lessons of lost cause
LABOR’S teaching reforms are too little, too late.
Primary schools weak link for maths
MATHS skills among Australian students improve markedly in high school, when students catch up to the high-performing Asian nations.
Eleven-hour school days the reality
YOUNGER children are spending up to 11 hours a day at school as their parents use before- and after-school care for child-minding.
Budget will pay for Gonski reforms: Swan
FEDERAL Treasurer Wayne Swan will outline the savings in May’s budget to pay for the government’s school reform plan.
Sarra ‘not bitter’ as QUT cuts contract
THE Queensland University of Technology yesterday terminated the contract of its founder and executive director Chris Sarra.
Please, sir, may we get some more?
UNIVERSITIES’ argument for increased public funding doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny.
Early school saves on childcare bills
PARENTS trying to escape the rising cost of childcare are sending their children to school earlier.
Deans dismiss standards criticism
UNIVERSITY deans have hit back at claims that quality is at risk from falling minimum ATARs for teaching degrees.
Teachers have a lot to learn
BUT why is the Gillard government backing the unions’ anti-choice drive?
Bard’s bad rap no barrier to young fans
LUCY Clare might be only nine years old and in Year 4 at school but she already knows her favourite Shakespeare play.
LNP call to give up on Gonski
FEDERAL schools funding should be distributed as general revenue to the states and territories based on their population.
Qld follows Vic lead on Gonski
QUEENSLAND is defecting from Julia Gillard’s education-funding reforms, following Victoria’s lead to go it alone on Gonski.
Mother ‘ignored on school abuser’
A PARENT at a government school in SA where an alleged sex offender worked says she tried to raise concerns about him but was ignored.
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