How sportsgirls will light up
Awareness of elite sportswomen and their team sports has increased significantly but not enough says the head coach of the Australian netball team.
Education
Teachers walk away from low pay and 60-hour week
Teachers are calling for better pay, relief from administration, greater classroom autonomy and support for their wellbeing.
ALP builds education campaign
Bill Shorten has claimed that only a Labor government was committed to ‘extra resources’ for schools.
Schools ‘gaming uni entry’
Glaring anomalies in the uni entry system are benefiting a small cohort of students who study the International Baccalaureate.
When the enemy is the couch
Whip smart Meg Jacobs could have been anything. She chose to teach 800 kids from Brisbane’s toughest battler suburbs. Why?
Labor’s school funding blitz
Victorian Labor is planning a pre-election attack on the Coalition as Education Minister James Merlino pulls out of a key forum.
Chloe on practical path to medicine
A record number of indigenous students across Australia, including Chloe Barber, are finding paths to enter university.
ALP ‘to review NAPLAN’
A Shorten government would review NAPLAN, Tanya Plibersek has revealed.
Teaching bid for top students faces crisis
Australia’s schooling system is facing an ‘unprecedented’ crisis, a leading education academic has warned.
Focus on economy, RBA tells schools
The Reserve Bank has called on education authorities to arrest a sharp decline in the number of students studying economics.
Political agendas ‘ruining’ learning
‘Twenty-first century skills’ such as creativity and intercultural understanding aren’t much use if you can’t read or write.
Apologies for HSC bungle
The NSW government apologises to high school graduates after they received HSC certificates printed with the wrong date.
Bias against vocational training ‘needs fixing’
Former NZ skills minister Steven Joyce says Australia needs to address its bias against vocational education in favour of unis.
Teachers ‘fear revealing impact of bad behaviour’
Inconsistent approaches to managing student behaviour is resulting in chaotic classrooms and stressed teachers, says Greg Ashman.
Teacher bullying out of control
Teachers must be given better training to manage classroom discipline, Education Minister Dan Tehan has said.
Graduate job hopes improving by degrees
Things continue to look up for university graduates, according to newly released figures — especially those in regional and remote areas.
SINGLE-SEX schools OFFER PARENTS A CHOICE
And they outperform coeducational institutions — so let parents decide.
one-sex schools failing students
Coeducational institutions teach them to compete as equals – as they must in life.
ALP: get smarter about dumbing down of teaching
Labor has announced plans to raise the bar on entry into teaching degrees in a bid to stop the “dumbing down” of the teaching profession.
Coming to grips with the millennial mind
Mathematics lecturer Clio Cresswell foresees a world divided into a numerate priesthood and an innumerate mass.
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