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Ministers order NAPLAN coaching probe
EDUCATION ministers have ordered an investigation into “excessive test preparation” by schools trying to boost NAPLAN scores.
Solar schools 10 times dearer, unsafe
THE federal government is paying 10 times its carbon price to cut greenhouse gas emissions at thousands of schools.
Deal settles indigenous schools claim
ABORIGINAL leaders from the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye have signed a historic deal with the federal government.
Poor hit hardest by teaching failures
THE teaching of science and mathematics in Victoria is facing a crisis, failing to achieve basic benchmarks, says the state’s Auditor-General.
Teachers say no to merit pay bonuses
VICTORIAN public school teachers have vowed to walk away from any deal including merit-based payments.
BER byword for waste: Pyne
THE opposition says the $16 billion Building the Education Revolution program has become a byword for incompetence.
If they’re happy and they know it . . .
POSITIVE education is taking hold from the gleaming halls of Geelong Grammar to hardscrabble public schools across the country
$12m lost in BER school closures
TAXPAYERS have spent $11.7 million sprucing up 33 schools that were shut down after being given building grants.
Teachers reject bonus pay
VICTORIAN public school teachers have vowed to walk away from any pay deal that includes merit-based rewards.
Indigenous school puts uni in sight
DJARRAGUN College has students eligible for Overall Position scores – the prerequisite for direct university entry in Queensland
Forty BER projects to miss deadline
UP to 40 school stimulus projects will not meet the $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution’s final extended deadline.
Google ‘building brand’ in schools
GOOGLE’s pitch to improve the computer literacy of 500 teachers and 20,000 students will allow it to imprint brand awareness.
Training cuts threat to 7000 jobs
ALMOST 7000 jobs will be lost in Victoria and $400m cut from vocational training after the budget cuts, projections show.
Indigenous schooling’s ‘bold move’
ABORIGINAL educators have welcomed the NSW government’s plan for a radical overhaul of indigenous education.
No impediment to ditching books
SCHOOLS are free to banish printed books even if they have built new libraries with grants, Finance Minister Penny Wong said.
Business is on board, dollar for dollar
THE chief of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation says his organisation is a good model for government funding.
‘Miserable’ wages cause poor teaching
PRODUCTIVITY Commission chairman Gary Banks has said “miserable” wages are contributing to poor-quality teaching.
Djarragun fund error balloons
DJARRAGUN College may have to repay nearly twice as much in taxpayers’ funds as was publicly conceded.
BER waste as schools scrap books
SCHOOLS are getting rid of printed books, despite $4bn of taxpayers’ money being spent on 3472 libraries in the past three years.
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