Garrett rebuts Gonski delays
PETER Garrett has rejected claims that the federal government unnecessarily delayed the adoption of education funding reforms from the Gonski report.
Education
Global lessons in value of education
RESEARCH bears out that non-government schools increase equity and improve productivity.
Student teachers must master subjects
RAISING entry requirements, for a start, sends a positive signal about what society expects.
Parents protest Muslim school finances
PARENTS and ex-students yesterday gathered at the nation’s largest Muslim school to protest against alleged mismanagement of funds.
Call to overhaul teacher training
THE Gonski recommendations will fail to lift standards unless there is a transformation in teacher training, says one expert.
Newman holds out on funding for trial
SCHOOL attendance rose 24 per cent in Aurukun during the welfare reform trial, which faces tougher funding controls by the state.
Why I don’t give a Gonski
THE record of our neighbours shows good education can be attained with fewer funds.
Passionate about the power of learning
In the small indigneous community where Yvonne O’Neill grew up, the local school catered for students only to Year 10.
Call to coerce kids back to school
A REPORT found those out of school for one year have a 65 per cent lower chance of returning than those who have just left school.
Education ‘political football’ attacked
THE government’s delay in responding to the Gonski review of school funding had created doubt about its commitment to an overhaul.
Abbott ‘won’t take money off schools’
TONY Abbott yesterday reiterated his belief that public schools were not short-changed under current funding arrangements.
Learning curve for overseas family
WITH annual school fees of about $23,000 a year for their two boys, the Yaacobs faced a constant struggle to make ends meet.
‘No school to be worse off’ under Libs
THE federal opposition has declared no school will be worse off under an Abbott government.
School reforms unaffordable: Abbott
TONY Abbott says public schools are adequately resourced and the Gonski funding reforms are unaffordable under current budgetary conditions.
Private schools seek certainty on funding
PRIVATE schools want assurances that promised extra funding will be indexed to inflation, as unions demanded most new cash be spent on the government sector.
PM: private schools will get more
JULIA Gillard will today promise every independent school increased funding amid fears one in three schools will be worse off under education reforms.
Direct Instruction an effective method
TEACHERS should be teachers, not facilitators, when it comes to educating schoolchildren.
Science vital in Asian Century
AUSTRALIA risks being left behind in the Asian Century if we don’t take science and innovation more seriously.
Where goodness has its own reward
FOR every rebuke in the classroom or the yard at Manor Lakes College in Melbourne’s western suburbs, a teacher aims to praise.
Primary kids better without calculator
PRIMARY school students who use calculators and computers in maths and work in small groups “score lower on tests”.
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