Chinese flock to Aussie unis
Chinese students have defied warnings from their government and flocked to Australia in record numbers this year.
Education
Tears as Brownie comes back
Trinity Grammar deputy Rohan Brown has been welcomed back by the school after he was sacked for cutting a student’s hair.
Holiday classes for NAPLAN
Sydney libraries and a swimming centre are running school-holiday classes to help children cram for NAPLAN tests.
Mission to ease China tensions
Six vice-chancellors from Group of Eight universities will head to China next month.
Truancy crisis behind crime
Government data has confirmed the incontrovertible link between truancy and youth crime that starts early in a child’s life.
No clash of colleges, Pyne insists
The minister says a new Adelaide-based college will complement an existing maritime college in Tasmania.
Scramble to save HECS bill
The government is working to shore up Senate crossbench support to get its Higher Education Support bill passed.
Warning on anti-choke device
An ‘anti-choking’ device that Britain said cannot be marketed for use in schools is being spruiked for sale in Australia.
End this war, minister told
Education Minister ordered to resolve the Catholic education funding crisis amid warnings the issue could cost Coalition seats.
‘No sign’ Birmo is anti-Catholic
Liberal frontbencher Michael Sukkar says a new method of calculating incomes will deliver a fairer school funding model.
Income ‘exposes bias on funding’
Catholic school families typically earn significantly less than their neighbours who send their children to independent schools.
Macron’s kindy terror solution
All three-year-olds in France will have to attend school in a measure designed to foster social cohesion and prevent children turning into extremists.
Minister gives way on loan top-ups
Education Minister Simon Birmingham has eased the impact of the government’s planned cap on student loans.
PM fails to get up on tax cuts
PoliticsNow: Turnbull government fails to get the numbers to pass business tax cuts in the Senate this week.
Apple spruiks iPad for schools
Apple and Google are competing fiercely to colonise the education market, with Apple announcing a new iPad.
Newspoll divides Turnbull camp
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is looking a lot like the tomato that ripened early.
Teachers declare funding war
The powerful teachers’ union has declared war on the government over public school funding cuts.
Fee-stung Catholics going public
Catholic schools in Sydney’s northern suburbs have lost more than 320 students to neighbouring public schools.
Birmingham ‘sorry’ to Catholics
Simon Birmingham offers a qualified apology, but says Bill Shorten is “just trying to pick winners and buy votes”.
Church campaign could reignite
The funding war between the Catholic Church and the Turnbull government last year may have dire consequences for the Coalition.
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