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Education Minister Prue Car.

SMH Schools Summit 2024 as it happened: Prue Car, Jason Clare speak; co-education on agenda

Coeducation, funding and creating schools of the future: follow our live coverage of the Sydney Morning Herald Schools Summit.

  • Anthony Segaert

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Education Minister Prue Carr

Every school in NSW to offer gifted education programs

High potential and gifted education is available in only half the state’s schools, but Education Minister Prue Car plans to change that.

  • Daniella White and Lucy Carroll
Jenny Allum, head of school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst, said the policy essentially capped the number of excellent teachers that could be in the state sector.

Top Sydney principal criticises ‘odd’ teacher salary plan

The SCEGGS Darlinghurst principal criticised plans to reward 10 per cent of state school teachers with a $150,000 salary, revealing her own staff’s pay.

  • Mary Ward
Knox Grammar students.

Schools in a ‘resources race’ for staff amid teacher shortages

Knox Grammar’s headmaster says his school is experiencing a major staff shortage and there is stiff competition between education sectors.

  • Daniella White and Amelia McGuire
Year 1 students at Oatley Public School use their knowledge of phonics to spell on their whiteboards.

Almost half of NSW’s year 1 students do not read as well as they should

The most disadvantaged year 1 students were half as likely to meet the expected standard as their advantaged counterparts.

  • Jordan Baker
Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge speaks at the Age Schools Summit on Tuesday.

Tudge ‘very cautious’ on international student return

Melbourne University’s international chief has urged a wary federal Education Minister to approve a plan for students put forward by Victoria as coronavirus rages overseas.

  • Michael Fowler, Madeleine Heffernan and Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Education Minister Alan Tudge says increased funding is not the key to better school results.

Minister says quality teaching, not more school funding key to better results

Australia should look to the UK to reverse two decades of decline in reading, maths and science, says federal minister Alan Tudge.

  • Adam Carey
Agreements reveal how the Catholic and independent school bodies will spend the Morrison government’s $1.2 billion “choice and affordability fund” for non-government schools.

‘Moral imperative’: Rush risks poor-quality curriculum, educators warn

Unions and principals warn the government is pushing the new curriculum into classrooms too soon, risking poor-quality syllabuses, under-prepared teachers and short-changed students.

  • Jordan Baker
Dallas Mclnerney, chief executive officer of Catholic Schools NSW and Adrian Piccoli from the University of NSW Gonski Institute.

Catholic leader dismisses school funding reform as ‘flight of fantasy’

A proposal by former education minister Adrian Piccoli to reduce segregation and disadvantage in schooling has been slammed by the leader of NSW Catholic schools.

  • Anna Patty
Paul Martin, CEO of NESA, speaks at The Sydney Morning Herald Schools Summit held at the ICC.

Schools will trial ‘untimed syllabuses’ before ambitious statewide reform

NSW Education Standards Authority chief executive Paul Martin said he believed the idea, where students progress through school according to their ability rather than their age, had merit but implementing it next year “was too radical for the moment”.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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