Old-school learning best: Pyne
SCHOOL education under a Coalition government would focus on improving knowledge rather than training in skills.
Education
Private schools should face means test
THE vast majority of the community supports means testing private schools to determine the government funds they should receive.
Bus bungle fuels Lib-Nat tensions
DISABLED students in NSW stranded by an Education Department bungle should have assisted transport to school by Monday.
Training plan ‘ignores staff costs’
JULIA Gillard’s plan to offer guaranteed training places worth up to $7800 is unlikely to lift places in key trade areas, experts say.
Private schools ‘a lifestyle choice’
GOVERNMENT funding of private schools is subsidising the lifestyle choices of the middle class at the expense of disadvantaged students.
Experts trash loan plan for diplomas
JULIA Gillard’s plan to introduce income-contingent loans for vocational diplomas is likely to dramatically increase what students pay.
Quality over price is key: Gillard
JULIA Gillard will fast-track her planned shake-up of the vocational training sector.
Welfare trial’s mixed results
A NEW report on a radical indigenous welfare trial finds that a relapse in absenteeism after the compliance period is commonplace.
Schools funding ‘fails to close gap’
A SECRET report says government funding of private schools has failed to lift standards for disadvantaged students.
Pyne to oppose school fees increase
THE opposition has warned it will oppose any reform to education funding that puts upward pressure on private school fees.
Millions spent, no evidence of benefit
HUNDREDS of millions of dollars spent to improve the education of indigenous students is being wasted.
Care gripes ‘put costs before kids’
THE agency overseeing reforms to lift childcare quality has accused the sector of misrepresenting the impact of new standards.
Income shaping academic success
THE growing difference in the income of rich and poor families is accompanied by a widening gap in the success of their children
Universities should set own fees
THEY would be then free to experiment and innovate in order to meet certain obligations.
Allowance boost for regional students
A REGULATION that made it impossible for some students to access full youth allowance benefits will be rectified from tomorrow
Graduate science scheme falters
THE federal government has vowed to continue a $63.6 million program to attract more graduates to careers in science and maths.
Enrolment failures fixed: Djarragun
THE nation’s premier indigenous school insists it now has “reliable enrolment and attendance procedures”.
Police weigh charges on school ‘fraud’
Police will consider laying charges when the investigation into alleged misconduct at a premier indigenous school is completed.
No need for school fee hikes: Garrett
THE federal government has rejected warnings by private schools they will have to raise fees if the funding system is overhauled.
Science ‘slump’ doesn’t add up
FEARS of a slump in Year 12 science studies were based on a miscalculation, the NSW chief scientist warned yesterday
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