Training cuts threat to 7000 jobs
ALMOST 7000 jobs will be lost in Victoria and $400m cut from vocational training after the budget cuts, projections show.
ALMOST 7000 jobs will be lost in Victoria and $400m cut from vocational training after the budget cuts, projections show.
ABORIGINAL educators have welcomed the NSW government’s plan for a radical overhaul of indigenous education.
SCHOOLS are free to banish printed books even if they have built new libraries with grants, Finance Minister Penny Wong said.
THE chief of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation says his organisation is a good model for government funding.
PRODUCTIVITY Commission chairman Gary Banks has said “miserable” wages are contributing to poor-quality teaching.
DJARRAGUN College may have to repay nearly twice as much in taxpayers’ funds as was publicly conceded.
SCHOOLS are getting rid of printed books, despite $4bn of taxpayers’ money being spent on 3472 libraries in the past three years.
Andrew Forrest promised Noel Pearson $3 million to keep the doors open at the indigenous school under police investigation.
THE NSW government will give unprecedented authority to 15 new executive principals.
THE Gillard government’s school fiscal stimulus program will be investigated by the Victorian Auditor-General.
MENTAL goods, such as intellectual curiosity, are unlikely to respond to economic stimuli.
EVERY teacher will be able to use student results, parent feedback and classroom observation to prove their performance.
THE concept of lifelong learning is a blind spot in certain views of education.
MEN are turning down teaching jobs out of fear of litigation, says the head of the Australian Primary Principals Association
AUSTRALIA should give up its failed experiment in teaching Chinese to Year 12 students, according to a Chinese studies expert
CHILDREN who go to before-school care early in their first year of school have been found to have higher levels of hyperactivity
Peter Garrett today meets with business leaders to work out how to increase interest in Asian languages among students.
CULTURAL business that takes Aboriginal teenagers away from class is being considered part of the curriculum at remote schools.
A THIRD Islamic school in Sydney has had its funding frozen by the NSW government.
THE future of funding to boost literacy and numeracy in struggling students remains unclear, despite the PM’s claims of success.
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