ICAC probes UNE manager over graft
A UNIVERSITY manager accepted 57 free lunches and dinners from a company who with his backing won a campus contract worth $1.2 million a year.
Education
Vocational training loans ‘open to rorts’
BRUCE Chapman, the architect of HECS, has backed a proposal to introduce income-contingent loans for vocational education
Labor’s ‘loans for vocational courses’
HUNDREDS of thousands of students in the vocational education system will be offered HECS-style government loans under a Labor plan.
Historic national curriculum reform
Today, Queensland becomes the first state to start teaching what NSW has derided as a “dumbed-down” program.
A dream job in league of its own
TANIKA Perry was born into a love of rugby league – her father is a passionate league man and sponsors the local team
Funding formula needs reform
PETER Garrett will need to be sensitive to all parties in his response to the Gonski review.
Light dims on scientific research
OUR future as a smart country is being undermined.
Principal happy to run her own show
PAULA Barton’s days as principal of Moree Secondary School, which has a predominantly indigenous population, might be numbered.
Indigenous schools get autonomy
REMOTE indigenous schools will be run by directors with autonomy to spend money and hire staff.
Public schools ‘lose out’ on funds
GOVERNMENT funding for private schools is rising about 1.5 times faster than the growth in funding for public schools.
WA to send kids to school year earlier
WA children will start school a year earlier under an education system designed to accord with the national curriculum.
Unis ‘must crack world’s top 50’
AUSTRALIA must catapult at least eight of its universities into the global top 50 within four years, Chris Pyne will argue.
Uni says new rules to blame for cuts
VICTORIA University is seeking to shed up to 80 administrative staff through voluntary redundancies as it cuts costs.
Crossbenchers baulk at cuts
KEY crossbenchers say they won’t support the government’s $640 million cuts to education spending to return the budget to surplus
Testing options for students
VICTORIAN students will be able to choose from a range of assessments in Year 12 under a plan to end the dominance of exams.
The logjam holding our children back
A REAL education revolution must start with constantly improving teacher quality.
Only ‘right’ kids to stay at school: Abbott
TONY Abbott has declared only the “right” children should remain at school after year 10, saying the rest may be wasting their time.
Poor kids lose in learning stakes
BY age two or three, discrepancies have emerged in the social and emotional development of Australian children.
Gas to power education, says Bligh
HALF the royalties from Queensland’s new liquefied natural gas industry will be re-invested to educate the state’s children.
Teach about lost kids, MP urges
MP and former foster child Steve Irons has urged the Gillard government to delay approval of the history curriculum
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