Memo old boys: we’re not flush
Sydney’s Riverview College has sent a letter to old boys spelling out financial details of billionaire Paul Ramsay’s bequest.
Education
China student denounces himself
The editor of a Melbourne blog has been forced to publicly denounce himself after he published an “incorrect” map.
There’s a bear… and hard work
Play School adviser Cathie Harrison says early-years education needs to focus on what the research says.
Spending ‘an excuse to cut funds’
Students and academics are concerned reports about high-spending universities are a ‘smokescreen’ to planned cuts.
Our teachers better qualified
New teachers are heading into the nation’s classrooms with higher levels of education than those before them.
Unis cry poor but spend on ads
Australia’s universities spent $1.7bn on advertising, marketing and promotions over the past seven years | GRAPHIC
Tough to break into classroom
Fewer than half of all new teaching graduates are working full-time in classrooms.
Axed human trial stuns boffins
The Australian Catholic University cancelled part of a research grant in the middle of a human clinical trial.
Truancy persists despite alert
High truancy rates persist in WA despite a coroner linking the problem to suicide almost eight years ago.
Teaching Cook legacy guaranteed
Teaching the legacy of Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip is guaranteed to remain in NSW’s history curriculum.
‘I didn’t know how to get to uni’
In 2008, one student got an AIEF scholarship. This year, it graduated more than 90.
Jobs for school leavers dry up
Parents believe work experience should be compulsory amid warnings that school leavers’ jobs are drying up.
Birmingham blamed on teacher pay
The Catholic system in Victoria is blaming the Turnbull government for being unable to extend a teacher pay rise.
Shorts an option for schoolgirls
Girls should be allowed to wear shorts to school, the WA Equal Opportunity Commission has ruled.
Perth school goes Ivy League
It’s a long way from a suburban Perth school to the lecture halls of Harvard.
‘You could kill people’
An air safety regulator audit has exposed a serious training bungle that risked endangering the lives of air travellers.
School runs a white-knuckle ride
There’s a school with a difference in the Victorian ski fields.
Uniform complaint ‘a year ago’
A woman in the ‘No’ ad complained in 2016 to state education officials about her son being told he could wear a dress to school.
‘Left capitulates on history’
Tony Abbott has rejected a plan to teach more indigenous history in primary schools as a ‘capitulation to the left’.
Teachers ‘need ongoing help’
Parents have welcomed the rollout of classroom-readiness assessments for teachers but say they need ongoing support.
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