Suspend judgment: keep kids at school
SCHOOL students who have been suspended are twice as likely to be excluded again in the next 12 months.
Education
Kids will be kids
“IT’S a very surreal situation, finding yourself in front of a group of kids,” says Bernie Howitt. “It is hard work.”
Confronting the problem in our schools
TEACHERS are struggling to control students, with 30pc saying bad behaviour is a problem, yet teaching degrees don’t provide the skills to cope.
Future voters divert PM’s pitch
JULIA Gillard went back to school to promote the schoolkids payment, but faced a grilling from her young audience.
Twitter flak @ TeamJG
JULIA Gillard faced a backlash after she and Labor MPs tweeted the hashtag #cashforyou to promote the School Kids Bonus.
Foreign students’ win fuels jobs row
THE Gillard government will expand work rights for international students, fuelling the row over foreigners in Australian jobs.
Literacy program a $322m failure
JULIA Gillard’s education policy aimed at lifting national literacy and numeracy standards has failed to produce improvements.
Students quit public to go private
NEARLY 5000 students shifted from public to private high schools in NSW this year.
When freedom is taken for granted
OUR education system puts motivating children ahead of the love of ideas.
Ministers order NAPLAN coaching probe
EDUCATION ministers have ordered an investigation into “excessive test preparation” by schools trying to boost NAPLAN scores.
BER spending heads audit of blowouts
THE Gillard government’s school fiscal stimulus program will be investigated by the Victorian Auditor-General.
Feds, Vic square off over TAFE cuts
VEILED threats to withhold federal funding over TAFE funding cuts are disingenuous, says Victoria’s Skills Minister.
Baillieu TAFE cuts stir concerns
THE Gillard government is on a collision course with Victoria over the state’s cuts to TAFEs.
Disability education overhaul
A CULTURE of low expectations means that for disabled children the nation’s schools are just “babysitting services”.
Mass education changes face of university
AUSTRALIA’S tertiary institutions are grappling with their very different role in contemporary society.
Call to end uni ‘popularity contest’
CHIEF scientist Ian Chubb will call for a radical rethink of university funding so that sciences do not fall victim to a “popularity contest”.
Hitting training targets to reap $57bn
AUSTRALIAN governments will boost gross domestic product by 2 per cent and deliver society a $57 billion bonanza.
Free schools ‘could turn profit’
JULIA Gillard’s communications chief, John McTernan, supports the idea of for-profit organisations running free public schools.
Teach troublemakers to be moneymakers
AN overly rigid education system is stifling the creativity and risk-taking behaviour of the next generation of innovators.
Career centres to be retrenched
THE government will close 13 Career Centres tasked with helping the jobless and people who are thinking of changing jobs
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