Child-sex offender an education worker
A MAN arrested and charged on child pornography offences continued working for the Education Department until he pleaded guilty.
Education
Schools may get ‘obsolete computers’
SCHOOLS are demanding extra taxpayer funding to replace hundreds of thousands of obsolete computers over the next four years.
Isolating the root of misconduct
A STAND-ALONE unit dealing with students’ behaviour problems should be attached to every high school.
Sarra stretches the gap on credibility
THE education activist needs to prove his programs work.
New risk to green schemes
SIGNATURE federal Labor reforms could be under threat after a High Court decision that ruled the school chaplains program invalid
Teachers feel ‘they can’t stop bullies’
AFTER dealing with dozens of claims of schoolyard bullying, lawyer Kim Bainbridge has come to a startling conclusion.
Teachers get help with troublemakers
THE Victorian government will fund further training for public school teachers to help them cope with disruptive students.
Smartest students giving up in boredom
GIFTED and talented students are frustrated, disengaged and failed by the education system.
Benefits of the great outdoors lost
SCHOOLS are cutting back on outdoor adventure for students when research is emerging on the benefits of experiential education.
State to axe ‘big stick’ truancy scheme
A FEDERAL scheme linking school attendance to welfare payments will be scrapped by the Queensland government.
Cops sent back to school to fight crime
EXTRA police will be embedded in schools across Queensland under a plan to beef up community law enforcement.
Can do better: unis take hit
THE nation’s biggest employer of teachers, the NSW government, is challenging the quality of training provided by universities.
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.
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.
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