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There's growing frustration in Papua New Guinea over so-called 'straight A' students missing out on a place at university this year.
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| UpdatedThe first ever national curriculum for Auslan, the language of the deaf community in Australia, will soon be rolled out in schools across Australia.
Topics: hearing, languages, access-to-education, education-industry, disabilities, australia, townsville-4810, sydney-2000
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Three Tasmanian special needs schools are among the latest group set to extend to Years 11 and 12, staring from the 2018 school year.
Topics: education, access-to-education, continuing-education, university-and-further-education, states-and-territories, tas
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The Government says to stop universities "gaming the system", from 2018 they will have to publish detailed information about exactly what marks students received to get into their degree, including the lowest ATAR accepted.
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| UpdatedAustralians without a high school education are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack than those with a university degree, according to a study.
Topics: heart-disease, diseases-and-disorders, stroke, education, access-to-education, community-education, continuing-education, educational-resources, university-and-further-education, health, australia
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| UpdatedLiterally in the middle of a cattle station lies a 16-student school. But what it lacks in size it certainly makes up for in spirit.
Topics: primary-schools, access-to-education, community-education, distance-education, community-development, rural-youth, alpha-4724, clermont-4721
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| UpdatedTwo international reports show Australia's education standards dropping down the global rankings, and the latest NAPLAN data shows students' results flat-lining. Countries spending more on education appear to get better results — but the story's not that simple.
Topics: primary-schools, public-schools, secondary-schools, education, access-to-education, australia
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Saad Al-Kassab would like to study medicine because there weren't enough doctors in his country of birth, Syria.
Topics: refugees, education, access-to-education, secondary-schools, sydenham-3037, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedParents of students at Hobart's Hilliard Christian School are upset it could close next year after more than 100 years of teaching.
Topics: education, access-to-education, christianity, secondary-schools, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedA Syrian refugee, who began learning English in 2014 by watching Question Time in Parliament, achieves the highest scores of his class and becomes dux of one of Australia's biggest Catholic schools.
Topics: education, access-to-education, secondary-schools, refugees, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, sydenham-3037
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Families living in remote parts of the Northern Territory say they are struggling more than anyone in Australia to access appropriate education, such as boarding schools, for their children.
Topics: access-to-education, rural-youth, government-and-politics, alice-springs-0870, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedRather than leaping to conclusions about a failing education system, we need to look at what the data tells us about student performance at a state level to help us make more informed decisions.
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An autism advocacy body calls on governments to develop a national approach to deal with autism in the education system.
Topics: autism-spectrum-disorder, access-to-education, disabilities, children, morwell-3840
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Australia's performance in science continues to slide due to ineffective, traditional teaching practices and an outdated curriculum. Here's what needs to change.
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| UpdatedThe questions young people tend to ask about maths often relate to their personal experience of how they found maths in school.
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| UpdatedIn a slightly different type of pork-barrelling, farmers, rural women and footy players will push a giant papier-mâché pig through country NSW to raise money for country kids' futures.
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| UpdatedA Baird Government demand that TAFE hand back more than $210 million will stop young people getting their feet "onto the skills ladder", the NSW Opposition says.
Topics: adult-education, access-to-education, vocational, community-education, continuing-education, state-parliament, nsw
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The latest TIMSS report shows that students in Australia make very little — if any — progress in maths from Year 4 to Year 8.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, federal-government, access-to-education, educational-resources, mathematics-education, australia, asia, singapore