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| UpdatedOn The Run convenience stores are under investigation by the SA Government following reports its traineeship program is a sham designed to keep wages low.
Topics: retail, work, education, community-and-society, sa
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The Canberra Institute of Technology confirms its Woden campus will close, possibly by the end of 2017.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, states-and-territories, woden-2606, tuggeranong-2900, canberra-2600, act
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School students share their stories to document the changing face of children in western Sydney as part this year's Sydney Writers' Festival program.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, education, books-literature, sydney-2000
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Disability advocates say schools have an obligation to include all students, amid concern an autistic Hunter Valley boy was to be excluded from attending his Year 10 formal.
Topics: disabilities, discrimination, education, schools, newcastle-2300, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull fuels speculation that his Government could fund the final two years of the Gonski education model, despite warning of a tough budgetary environment.
Topics: government-and-politics, turnbull-malcolm, federal-government, social-policy, education, launceston-7250, australia
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Primary school students from across Australia sing their hearts out in Canberra to highlight the importance of music in schools.
Topics: education, schools, primary-schools, music, music-education, canberra-2600, act, australian-national-university-0200
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| UpdatedTasmania's only mosque will open its doors this Saturday in a bid to welcome all Hobartians and promote social cohesion.
Topics: community-and-society, education, community-organisations, islam, religious-leaders, religion-and-beliefs, hobart-7000
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ACT school students sing together at the Music Count Us In event. (29 October 2015)
Topics: education, schools, primary-schools, canberra-2600, act, australian-national-university-0200
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GOTAFE will use a Victorian Government grant of $1 million to establish one-stop job centres at Shepparton and Wangaratta in the state's north-east.
Topics: work, education, shepparton-3630, wangaratta-3677, wodonga-3690
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Professor Andrew Markus from Monash University discusses the National Social Cohesion report, which found a high number of people think multiculturalism is good for Australia.
Topics: multiculturalism, community-and-society, education, immigration, australia
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Tasmania's latest Rhodes Scholar wants to use the prestigious research grant to tackle the growing issue of processing asylum seekers in Australia.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, refugees, community-and-society, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThe Archibull Prize art project has students from Tambo State School excited about agriculture.
Topics: beef-cattle, rural-youth, art-and-creativity, education, regional, women-in-agriculture, tambo-4478
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While it sounds alarming that a quarter of our youths are dropping out of school, the reality is more kids than ever before are graduating. The real concern is the education gap across socio-economic lines that is opening up.
Topics: education, access-to-education
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The principal of Melbourne's Templestowe College Peter Hutton told The Drum that most schools in Australia are operating with an education model that is broken.
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| UpdatedOne of the ACT's leading private schools for boys, the Canberra Grammar School, will begin the transition to becoming fully co-educational from next year.
Topics: secondary-schools, public-schools, primary-schools, schools, education, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe "no-platforming" campaign against Germaine Greer reflects a deeper sickness afflicting Western universities. While the stated aim is to reduce harm, the end result is enforced ignorance.
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| UpdatedProfessor Andrew White says a study proves the existence of "quantum entanglement", or the idea that objects separated by great distances can continue to affect each other's behaviour.
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| UpdatedA quarter of Australia's young people are not finishing school. This is the appalling legacy of our wilful neglect of our most disadvantaged kids.
Topics: government-and-politics, education, access-to-education
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| UpdatedA quarter of Australian school students are dropping out before the end of Year 12 and the country now has a less equitable education system than many other Western nations, a new study says.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, australia
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| UpdatedThe number of West Australian students whose whereabouts are unknown by the state's Education Department increases by almost 30 per cent over the last year, according to a recent report.
Topics: education, states-and-territories, children, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedIntegrity "strike teams" are set up by Victoria's Education Department to fight corruption following rorts exposed during IBAC hearings earlier this year.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, education, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAn exciting new program empowering young women through rock music is about to make its way to Australia.
Topics: music, music-education, education, feminism, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia