Education
‘We will be astonishing’
Sarah VoglerLeaving family and community to study in the city was not easy for teens Jamika Shillingsworth and Kobe See Kee.
New Safe Schools has old link
STEFANIE BALOGHThe Safe Schools replacement website may still contain a link to an external organisation despite Coalition changes.
Detention school shut down
MATTHEW DENHOLMUnrest forced a shutdown of Tasmania’s school for youths in criminal detention last month.
Opinion split on funding changes
JOHN ROSSWhile changes to research funding have been applauded, graduate studies heads say the timeline is unfeasible.
Project backs indigenous leaders
JULIE HARE“We are set to make an enormous difference,” according to University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis.
Growing focus on teacher quality
JOHN ROSSAustralia is not alone in raising the bar for teaching graduates, an international study has revealed.
Multiculturalism lures students
JOHN ROSSInternational education and multiculturalism have fed off each other to strengthen student flows down under.
CSU stance bewilders Christianity
JULIE HARETom Drake-Brockman fails to understand why CSA spent $10,000 on a legal challenge to his marking complaint.
Philanthropic quest for parity
NICK BLINCOThis is a global challenge the Atlantic Philanthropies is tackling through a series of international initiatives.
Selective schools ‘over-funded’
STEFANIE BALOGHThe Catholic school system says selective state high schools are ‘hugely inequitable’.
Male dominance program for tots
REBECCA URBANVictorian preschoolers will be exposed to a controversial program that associates masculinity with dominance.
We’re underfunded: private schools
STEFANIE BALOGHPrivate schools have hit back against repeated claims that some are receiving unfair amounts of taxpayer funds.
Lessons on ‘male privilege’
REBECCA URBANVictorian students will be taught about how ‘masculinity’ encourages ‘control and dominance’ over women.
Jobs dip for ‘tail-end’ graduates
JOHN ROSSThe demand-driven system has turned employment into a buyer’s market, flooding the workforce with graduates.
One-year funding contracts for now
JULIE HAREVice-chancellors have received letters from the Education Department signalling interim arrangements.
Reform ‘leaves courses unfunded’
JOHN ROSSThe reforms to the VET FEE-HELP loan scheme have put new funding pressure on the cash-strapped VET sector.
Canberra ‘negligent on fraud’
RICK MORTONAn ugly fight threatens to break out over who should pay to stop fraud in the family daycare sector.
Loan scheme on reform list
JULIE HAREThe first meeting of an advisory panel charged with higher education reform will focus on student loans.
Slapstick tactics fed $1bn fraud
RICK MORTONCars were in the driveway and the family daycare investigators heard adult voices inside the Melbourne home.
