Keeping still is a learning experience
STILL bodies, busy brains sums up the teaching approach taken by Roula Dunkerley in her classroom.
Education
Water left off school block
KOUMALA State School in Queensland has a new resource centre with toilet, shower and kitchenette thanks to the BER – but no water.
Danger to Catholic school autonomy
WHEN it comes to education the Greens are targeting non-government schools for cuts.
Major teachers strike looms
FAIR Work Australia has cleared the way for Victorian teachers and school support staff to unite in a major strike
Greens race to mend education conflict
THE Greens were scrambling last night to resolve a damaging by-election feud with Victoria’s Catholic hierarchy.
New maths courses ‘inadequate’
THE standard of maths taught at universities will have to be reduced if the proposed curriculum for Years 11 and 12 is adopted.
Language skills poor for APY children
ALMOST 40 per cent of children in South Australia’s remote Aboriginal lands do not speak English well, or at all.
We need better teachers, not more
INCREASING numbers of students are choosing teaching as a career because education degrees are “cheap and easy”, says Christopher Pyne.
Farmers body hits out at TAFE cuts
THE Victorian Farmers Federation has attacked the Baillieu government’s TAFE cuts, warning they will increase skill shortages.
Abbott to join worker bees
TONY Abbott will attempt to underline his indigenous reform credentials next month by joining a three-day working bee.
Families losing right to choose schools
TASMANIA has drawn up controversial plans that strip parents of the right to choose a specific state school for their children.
Indigenous student numbers set the pace
THE growth rate in Aboriginal university enrolments is almost double that of the overall population, finds a government report.
Syllabus puts feelings before facts
SCIENCE as taught in Queensland schools is a “social and cultural activity” based on “personal experiences”, a view rejected by the deans of science.
School of thought on bad behaviour
TEACHERS fresh out of university are struggling to cope with disruptive behaviour because of a lack of practical training.
Design for the arts under fire
THE new national arts curriculum has been criticised as an “incoherent” attempt to harmonise state standards.
‘Waste may dog’ housing stimulus
THE affordable housing stimulus package is likely to be beset by the same problems as the school buildings stimulus program
Taskforce chief hits inaction on BER
A KEY recommendation from the body set up to probe the $16bn school building program has not been implemented, an executive on the taskforce says.
TAFE funding cuts put jobs on the line
SWINBURNE University will shed up to 340 staff and may close two campuses after the Baillieu government’s $300 million TAFE cuts.
Partnerships change teaching practices
STATE and territory governments say teaching practices are changing as a result of partnerships with the federal government
Senator urges students to protest
GREENS senator Lee Rhiannon has called on students to campaign against funding shortages in higher education.
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