UA: Uni cuts will hurt economy
Maintaining higher education funding levels will boost productivity and growth in the economy.
Education
Stop worshipping the ATAR altar
It is time to say enough, and dramatically recast the way we teach senior high school.
‘Poor cousin’ VET’s funding falling
Training’s share of education spending has plummeted 30 per cent, as VET reels from a bipartisan trashing.
Take the politics out of education
An independent and expert statutory body makes sense.
Reading wars veteran stands firm
A back to basics approach to reading is paying dividends for young minds in inner Melbourne.
Warning of aged-care failures
The Weatherill government was warned more than two years ago of substandard training at TAFE SA.
Uses and abuse of Safe Schools
A teen is ‘bullied to death for being gay’ and the Safe Schools program might just stop it happening to another kid.
Bungling TAFE minister still OK
Students in South Australia could sue the state over the TAFE SA training scandal.
Heat here after UK literacy lift
Pressure is mounting on state and territory education ministers to endorse a nationwide phonics test for Year 1 students.
School ‘too risky to keep open’
A Townsville indigenous boarding school was so beset with problems that is was forced to shut its doors.
A chronicler of the nation
Ken Inglis’s diverse and diverting scholarly contributions have helped to shape the nation’s image of itself.
Schools warn PM on SSM
The head of a prestigious private school has warned that without SSM amendments, they could be at risk of being defunded.
Trainee teachers underprepared
If student-teachers are to be effective in class, their preparation must focus on practice, not just theories.
Phonic boom in reading skills
The teaching of phonics has been hailed after the literacy skills of primary school students improved.
Gonski a hot Catholic issue
Catholic schools have written to all candidates in the Bennelong by-election over the threat to school funding from Gonski 2.0 reforms.
The non-Muslim in the middle
Rory, 5, has been enrolled at an Islamic school despite having no connection whatsoever to the Muslim faith.
‘Cultural police’ academic blight
Growing on-campus intolerance for diverse views was potentially damaging Australia’s academic credentials, Rob Stokes said.
Regulate booze at uni colleges
Sydney University’s scandal-plagued colleges told to regulate alcohol and enforce a zero-tolerance approach to sexual misconduct.
Muslim kids spoonfed misogyny
Library books urging women to be submissive to their husbands and never refuse sex are among a dossier of material inspectors have found in Islamic schools.
Pupils get cracking
Hills International College has put computers at arm’s length in teaching coding skills to children as young as four.
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