Forrest pledged $3m to take over
Andrew Forrest promised Noel Pearson $3 million to keep the doors open at the indigenous school under police investigation.
Education
More money for indigenous school heads
THE NSW government will give unprecedented authority to 15 new executive principals.
BER spending heads audit of blowouts
THE Gillard government’s school fiscal stimulus program will be investigated by the Victorian Auditor-General.
Feds, Vic square off over TAFE cuts
VEILED threats to withhold federal funding over TAFE funding cuts are disingenuous, says Victoria’s Skills Minister.
Baillieu TAFE cuts stir concerns
THE Gillard government is on a collision course with Victoria over the state’s cuts to TAFEs.
Disability education overhaul
A CULTURE of low expectations means that for disabled children the nation’s schools are just “babysitting services”.
Mass education changes face of university
AUSTRALIA’S tertiary institutions are grappling with their very different role in contemporary society.
Call to end uni ‘popularity contest’
CHIEF scientist Ian Chubb will call for a radical rethink of university funding so that sciences do not fall victim to a “popularity contest”.
Hitting training targets to reap $57bn
AUSTRALIAN governments will boost gross domestic product by 2 per cent and deliver society a $57 billion bonanza.
Free schools ‘could turn profit’
JULIA Gillard’s communications chief, John McTernan, supports the idea of for-profit organisations running free public schools.
Teach troublemakers to be moneymakers
AN overly rigid education system is stifling the creativity and risk-taking behaviour of the next generation of innovators.
Career centres to be retrenched
THE government will close 13 Career Centres tasked with helping the jobless and people who are thinking of changing jobs
Call for better teacher skills
MORE than one in four school-leavers studying teaching in NSW scored in the bottom half of Year 12 scores last year.
TAFEs protest at cuts to funding
TAFE unions will target the Baillieu government’s most vulnerable MPs in their protest at cuts to public sector training.
$11m to fund laptops for kids
THE One Laptop Per Child program was a winner in the budget while the government’s own Digital Education Revolution took a haircut
Sigh of relief as Treasurer spares axe
LABOR has delivered a higher education budget that runs counter to expectations. Instead of cuts, universities emerge unscathed.
Universities escape funding pain
THE government’s response to the base funding review is still on hold, but universities have emerged from the budget unscathed.
Teacher recruitment drive off to a slow start
A $15.9 million federal program designed to encourage high-achievers to become teachers got just 71 applications in its first year.
School programs spared the axe
JULIA Gillard has quarantined literacy and numeracy programs in Tuesday’s budget.
Corporate chiefs urge IR overhaul
AUSTRALIA’S corporate elite is urging the government to use Tuesday’s budget to overhaul Labor’s industrial relations system.
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