THE Barnett government is considering shifting the state’s 500 most disruptive students from government to non-government schools in a proposal that would shut down 13 behaviour management centres established by state Labor in 2008.
THE government is using new financial regulations to block the growth of independent schools, senior figures in the sector have charged.
IN Britain they are dismantling the former prime minister’s education legacy.
OPPOSITION claims of plagiarism have overshadowed Julia Gillard’s launch of a campaign to attract standout students to teaching.
PARENTS plan to rally outside Melbourne’s Methodist Ladies College on Monday to demand the resignation of the school board.
THE principal of a Muslim school in Adelaide is embroiled in a dispute with the nation’s peak Islamic body.
TERTIARY Education Minister Chris Evans says the government’s $10 billion-a-year student-demand-driven system is not working.
STUDENTS at disadvantaged schools rate getting a job as one of the things they value most.
PROPER primary and secondary education is the key to Indigenous success at university.
A CONTENTIOUS brain-training program will be offered in Sydney’s Catholic school system next year.
VICTORIA will push for a greater emphasis on Australian history in the national curriculum for senior high school students.
THE national curriculum authority has defended its new Australian history course, saying Western and Judeo-Christian heritage is ‘clearly dealt with’.
JOHN Howard has described the Gillard government’s national school history curriculum as “unbalanced, lacking in priorities and quite bizarre”.
A TRIBUNAL has backed a NSW Education Department’s right to discriminate against fair-skinned Muslims of mixed ancestry.
THE Catholic education system holds a bleak view of the likelihood that the federal government will introduce Gonski reforms.
THE Uniting Church has ordered the warring parties in the dispute at Methodist Ladies’ College into arbitration.
THE Indonesian language program at the University of NSW has been given a stay of execution after a national outcry.
THE latest NAPLAN results confirm the success of Cape York’s Aboriginal Australian Academy .
WHEN new students start at Curran Public School, the principal makes sure the family can afford their child’s school uniform.
FINANCIAL backers of the Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne have come out in strong support of sacked principal Rosa Storelli.
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