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Students are taught pseudo-scientific 'rubbish'
A popular teaching theory has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.
A popular teaching theory has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.
The United Nations has been asked to investigate dozens of incidents where children with a disability were assaulted, locked in dark rooms and restrained in Australian schools.
Free range chickens have better rights than students in cramped Victorian schools, according to one Melbourne mother.
Bullying in Australian schools remains “unacceptably high,” a new report has found.
Alastair Weng shares the secrets to his academic success for less than the price of a coffee.
Cash-strapped schools are using Gonski funding earmarked for disadvantaged students to pay off their debts.
"That stereotype of men with nerdy glasses in a dark room is starting to go."
University students are being warned when classes contains graphic or sensitive content, including sexual abuse, rape and transgenderism, to protect their mental health.
Private schools are outspending Victorian public schools by four to one.
Two students have been taken to hospital after they overdosed on drugs at a school camp
Religious groups are running anti-bullying, girls empowerment and mentoring programs in Victorian state schools, as cash-strapped principals outsource extra-curricular activities.
Almost 60 per cent of Melbourne students are bypassing their local school, according to world renowned academic John Hattie.
Students were stranded by a cyclone, hospitalised with gastro and caught an aggressive strain of conjunctivitis during a school camp.
Victorian principals are struggling to make ends meet, with almost one in four state schools in deficit.
He tweeted that Sky News viewers were "masturbating chimps" and asked a commerce student whether he was happy to fail. Now he wants his job back.
La Trobe University has withdrawn all allegations of misconduct against controversial academic Roz Ward and reinstated the Safe Schools founder.
They had grand visions of water fountains that spluttered cola and slides that carried students from the second floor to the playground.
Victoria's controversial Safe Schools program will be axed if the Coalition wins the 2018 state election.
Lawyers say La Trobe University may have broken the law by suspending Roz Ward.
but it's so complex principals, and many parents, can't understand it
Victoria might be called "The Education State", but its schools are far from perfect. Here are five ways to help fix it.
La Trobe Uni suspends the co-founder of Safe Schools Coalition after she said the Australian flag was racist in a Facebook post.
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