Students count the cost of gambling in new maths program
When it comes to gambling, the numbers don't add up.
Education Editor at The Age
When it comes to gambling, the numbers don't add up.
As part of a global movement to measure skills that traditional pen and paper tests have failed to capture, Victorian schools will have to assess their students against non-academic capabilities, such as curiosity, creativity and problemsolving.
It was never going to go down well.
Victoria's wealthiest private schools have reaped government funding increases that are almost three times greater than those dished out to the most disadvantaged public schools.
There's an anxiety that grips Docklands families as their children grow up.
Victorian schools will soon have to make room for a record 1 million students, with new three-storey portables being rolled out to ease the overcrowding.
Every Victorian public school student will be $848 worse off every year under the Turnbull government's school funding plan, according to state Education Department figures.
The country boy from central Victoria didn't understand the rules of one of Melbourne's most exclusive boarding schools.
Parents fear a surge in international student enrolments has shut local students out of popular Melbourne state schools.
Researchers say funding inequities are "endemic" in Victoria compared with other states.
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