Catholic battle ‘electoral poison’
Cabinet ministers urge the PM to resolve the funding war with Catholic schools, warning the issue was hurting the Coalition.
Education
Schools chaplains survive
The $240m school chaplains program will be extended for another four years in the budget with a focus on anti-bullying.
Mindfulness makes school push
Schools are being encouraged to implement mindfulness classes to assist students’ social and emotional development.
‘I was wrong on Safe Schools’
Cate McGregor, a high profile critic of Safe Schools, says she was wrong to oppose the program that teaches gender fluidity to kids.
Free courses to meet jobs surge
Victoria will plough $828m into training and skills initiatives, including free TAFE courses.
Building plea as numbers spike
A total of 460 school buildings will need to be constructed to accommodate an extra 150,000 students on Melbourne’s fringe.
How to teach the new creed?
David Gonski’s endorsement of so-called 21st-century skills has been welcomed by educators.
Don’t shy from challenge: Gonski
Experts have warned that rebooting Australia’s underperforming education system would be costly and challenging.
‘Test doesn’t improve education’
The AEU has questioned the plan to lift education out of its rut, arguing the recommendations require a lift in spending.
‘We’re failing our children’
Australian schoolchildren have been falling behind their overseas peers despite record investment in education, the PM concedes.
Gonski to dumb down curriculum
Central to Gonski 2.0’s recommendations is the argument the curriculum should focus on the future by emphasising general capabilities
Lessons learned on value of play
Play time is on the decline at home, in childcare and in the early years of schooling, causing concern for educators and parents.
Curriculum ‘snubbing knowledge’
Education experts have warned that school funding will be wasted unless the national curriculum is fixed.
Inquiry learning harms students
We’ll get nowhere in school education until we understand it’s the curriculum that counts.
Teachers told to smarten up
Those who wish to undertake a teaching degree may well have to brush up on their literacy skills if they hope to succeed.
Future teachers found wanting
Students enrolled in teaching at a Melbourne university have performed poorly in a national literacy and numeracy test.
Parents embrace home schooling
More families are home schooling their children amid growing dissatisfaction with teaching standards and discipline at school.
NAPLAN is a useful tool: parents
The NAPLAN test is a ‘useful’ education tool that attracts ‘unnecessary angst’, parent bodies say.
Anger as unis dodge fund freeze
The federal government has again breached its university funding freeze with an extra $41m for the University of Tasmania.
Generous uni super extended
The university union has successfully negotiated an extension of the generous 17 per cent super scheme.
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