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Three Sydney private schools draft more than $400 million in new building plans
Proposals are in the pipeline for science centres, performing arts spaces and new sports complexes.
- by Lucy Carroll
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University
Why students are shunning education degrees and teachers are quitting the classroom
Students are turning away from teaching degrees at the same time experienced teachers are leaving the profession.
- by Daniella White
Students could lose marks over VCE exam breach
Victoria Curriculum and Assessment Authority boss Kylie White will leave her post immediately, as the education minister revealed early half of VCE exams were affected by the exam paper fiasco.
- by Caroline Schelle
To stop screen addiction, this school will give out phones. But there’s a catch
As families struggle to manage their children’s screen obsessions, Pymble Ladies’ College has devised a ground-breaking way to help.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Briony Scott: The surprising sex talk Sydney’s most respected principal gives her students
Dr Briony Scott is resigning, not retiring. But at 61, she says, she’s “more ready to hit something new than I ever have” been.
- by Peter FitzSimons
More Sydney schools are going co-ed. Is that best for boys?
Worsening problems with online porn and gaming addictions point towards the need to better cater to boys in education, says the head of an international school association.
- by Christopher Harris
This Sydney school ditched screens for a week. Here’s what happened
Research was done using hard copy textbooks; teachers photocopied class notes; and essays were drafted by hand.
- by Lucy Carroll
Editorial
Editorial
Government cannot keep failing VCE students at exam time
Year after year there have been serious problems with exams. It is simply not good enough.
- The Age's View
Demands grow to review students’ marks after VCE exam leaks scandal
Students, experts and teachers say it’s untenable for the state’s exam authority to press on with grading compromised exam papers as normal.
- by Noel Towell
Minister orders inquiry into VCE exam fiasco that advantaged thousands of students
The independent review is the second in two years into the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority after it previously published errors in exams.
- by Alex Crowe
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‘They knew the questions’: Students stunned, teachers fuming over VCE exam leak – by the government
The VCAA is in damage control after questions similar to those found “hidden” on sample VCE assessments turned up in the real exams.
- by Caroline Schelle, Alex Crowe and Gemma Grant
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