Garrett goes to the net
A NATIONAL social media campaign on the damaging effects of bullying will be developed to help students and parents cope.
Education
Deans reject teacher reforms
DEANS of education have disputed the NSW government’s claim they are feeding an oversupply of teachers across the nation.
Calls for teacher plan to go national
EDUCATION experts have called on the Gillard government to consider rolling out a national scheme to boost teacher standards after NSW unveiled plans to overhaul the sector.
Funds for online anti-bullying tools
SCHOOLS Minister Peter Garrett will today announce $4 million in federal funding to help develop new online tools designed to tackle school bullying.
Islamic school to repay $9m
AUSTRALIA’S biggest Islamic school has been ordered to pay back $9 million in public funds to the NSW government.
Blueprint to lift teaching standards
ASPIRING teachers will have to study maths and science at school to qualify for a limited number of places in education degrees.
State adopts Gonski ideas
A NEW model gives principals more autonomy in allocating resources.
Parents blind to learning benefits
PARENTS who keep children out of early childhood education programs often do so because they see parental care as better.
Digital age is dumbing down our kids
FAR from helping our kids develop, new technology may be holding them back.
Student pride on the curriculum
A SCHOOL that was a byword for failure has rebuilt on a foundation of respect.
Leadership brings dignity to table
THREE years ago, the windows at Glenala State High School in Brisbane’s southwest were boarded up.
‘Segregation in school’ claims denied
ALL education sectors in WA have denied claims in a human rights report that Aboriginal children in the Kalgoorlie region were segregated.
Home schoolers win dole respite
EMPLOYMENT Minister Bill Shorten has assured single mothers who home school their children they will not be forced on to the dole
Race ‘a problem in schools’
ABORIGINAL students at a school in the Kalgoorlie region were not allowed in groups of more than three, a rights body asserts.
Non-government schools should fear
THE new funding model will inevitably redirect money to the government sector.
Call for funding reform gathers pace
THE states yesterday joined the chorus calling on Canberra to overhaul the school funding system
Schools overhaul to cost $6.5bn
THE federal government is going ahead with sweeping reforms to the school funding system, with the goal of increasing spending by about $6.5bn.
Learn to embrace failure
THE F-word has been taboo in schools for years, but a Brisbane high school is teaching its students to embrace F for failure.
One teacher in pay-performance trial
A TEACHER performance-pay trial funded by the federal government had just one participant.
Broken puzzle of childcare
WITH rising prices eroding benefits, daycare is still scarce and inflexible.
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