Revealed: how Treasury clawed back $210m from floundering TAFE
The public vocational educator was struggling with a disastrous enrolment system, massive job cuts and chaotic implementation of government reforms.
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Kelsey Munro
Kelsey Munro is Acting Education Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.
How fake words can help kids learn to read
A five-minute reading "check" for first-graders that includes made-up words like "beff" and "shup" that has dramatically improved early literacy rates in the UK is set to be adopted in Australia.
University of Sydney beats Oxford, Cambridge in new global rankings
The University of Sydney produces graduates that are more employable than those from Cambridge, Oxford and Columbia, according to a new global ranking list.
'All about the profits': Families desert childcare
Some parents of children attending a for-profit childcare service run by the private equity firm that floated Dick Smith say its centres are being run into the ground as profits are siphoned off.
Oldest university college boycotting review of college culture
Australia's oldest university college is refusing to participate in a university-wide cultural review by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.
The (very) big business of little kids
It's boomtime for corporate childcare in Australia, with for-profit operators and the big, listed landlords who own more than half the nation's centres boasting of strong growth, increasing rental income and multimillion dollar profits for their shareholders.
What Asian schools are doing better than ours
Strict discipline and pressure to perform? Or a child-centred, individual approach?
Maintenance backlog: Sydney's most neglected schools revealed
Despite budgeting $80 million to reduce the maintenance backlog at state schools, the NSW government allowed the backlog to blow out by another $40 million.
Wootube: the celebrity teacher inspiring kids to like maths
By day: a maths teacher at the state's biggest high school, by night: YouTube celebrity. Eddie Woo is arguably the country's most famous maths teacher.
'Aren't women supposed to be smart nowadays?': inquiry told of bullying
Medical students victimised and belittled by senior colleagues or professors are silenced from reporting the harassment or bullying for fear they will be "marked for life" and find their career progress blocked as a result, a Senate inquiry has heard.
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