MySchool site earns OECD’s approval
LABOR’S MySchool website has been held up internationally as a leading example of reform to increase schools’ accountability.
LABOR’S MySchool website has been held up internationally as a leading example of reform to increase schools’ accountability.
THE target to halve the gap in literacy and numeracy between black and white schoolchildren is destined for failure, according to a report that reveals one-quarter of NSW indigenous students are failing to achieve minimum targets.
WHEN Peter Wilson started teaching, he could rely on having his students’ undivided attention for the 90 minutes of class time.
RON Williams warned he was prepared to launch fresh legal action to end the government’s funding for religious chaplains in schools.
NOEL Pearson has disputed that government funding for “phantom” students and millions in overpayments took place at a showpiece indigenous school in north Queensland.
NOT so long ago, Cairns West State School was dogged by seemingly insurmountable problems.
CORPORAL punishment can still be enforced in some independent schools because of a legal loophole in three states.
DILYS Bossley remembers punishing a 14-year-old boy with a strap when she started teaching in 1957.
A MAN arrested and charged on child pornography offences continued working for the Education Department until he pleaded guilty.
SCHOOLS are demanding extra taxpayer funding to replace hundreds of thousands of obsolete computers over the next four years.
THE federal government is paying 10 times its carbon price to cut greenhouse gas emissions at thousands of schools.
ABORIGINAL leaders from the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye have signed a historic deal with the federal government.
THE teaching of science and mathematics in Victoria is facing a crisis, failing to achieve basic benchmarks, says the state’s Auditor-General.
VICTORIAN public school teachers have vowed to walk away from any deal including merit-based payments.
THE opposition says the $16 billion Building the Education Revolution program has become a byword for incompetence.
POSITIVE education is taking hold from the gleaming halls of Geelong Grammar to hardscrabble public schools across the country
TAXPAYERS have spent $11.7 million sprucing up 33 schools that were shut down after being given building grants.
VICTORIAN public school teachers have vowed to walk away from any pay deal that includes merit-based rewards.
DJARRAGUN College has students eligible for Overall Position scores – the prerequisite for direct university entry in Queensland
UP to 40 school stimulus projects will not meet the $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution’s final extended deadline.
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