Not one child must be worse off
A COMMITMENT that no child or parent would be worse off under the Gonski education reforms is among state and territory demands.
A COMMITMENT that no child or parent would be worse off under the Gonski education reforms is among state and territory demands.
THE myriad inefficient and complicated systems for school funding that differ from state to state would be replaced by a single payment.
PRINCIPALS and teachers have welcomed the the recommendations for a new school funding model.
EVERY child attending a school where more than 75 per cent of students are indigenous could get double the base-level government payment.
JULIA Gillard has refused to commit to $5 billion schools funding boost recommended by the long-awaited Gonski review.
THE biggest review of its kind since 1973 has called for “more balance” in school funding between the commonwealth and states.
LABOR remains committed to returning the budget to surplus despite an expected recommendation of a $5 billion funding boost for schools.
CATHOLIC schools face fee increases of up to 131 per cent, forcing a potential exodus from facilities and campus closures.
REFORMS to the school funding system will focus on lifting the performance of disadvantaged and low-achieving students.
LESSONS from Asia for Australia’s education system include the massive input by parents in making their children work hard
IT wasn’t until Kimberley Louwrens tutored biology students that she realised she wanted to tackle educational disadvantage.
THE Coalition has not ruled out supporting the recommendations of the Gonski review of school funding, but won’t back changes that disadvantage schools.
ASIAN languages should be compulsory for every school student, says the accounting body CPA Australia.
THE national history curriculum has been overhauled, with an increased focus on the Stolen Generations
THE first study of the happiness levels of Indigenous teenagers has revealed they are as happy as non-Indigenous Australian adults.
A NATIONAL bilingual syllabus is urgently needed in schools in Aboriginal communities.
JULIA Gillard’s reforms have harmed her government’s goal of “winning the education race” against Asian nations.
ALMOST 35 per cent of Aborigines in Year 5 are still reading below the national minimum standard
JULIA Gillard says Australia is at risk of losing “the education race” with its Asian competitors.
QUEENSLAND has accused the Liberal-led governments of NSW, Victoria and WA of playing “political games” with the national curriculum.
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