Teacher guilty of sex abuse of ex-student still working in classroom
A man continues to teach children even after pleading guilty to a sex crime against a former student.
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Timna Jacks
Education Reporter at The Age
Primary kids get higher education at 10-storey CBD school in the sky
More than 200 children are set for a first day with a difference on Tuesday, with Haileybury College is opening the doors to its new "vertical school" in an old call centre just opposite Fitzroy Gardens
IBAC finds disastrous Ultranet project for schools was a 'corrupt' shambles
Education Department officials corrupted the tender process for a disastrous school IT project, wasting up to $240 million in taxpayers' money, Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog has concluded.
Rise and fall of the man behind Ultranet scandal
The story began at Glen Waverley Secondary College in the late 1990s, where Darrell Fraser's staff were beavering away at a Victorian first: an intranet school system.
Only one in three teachers qualified to teach new compulsory subject
From next week, eight-year-olds in Victoria will start learning how to make computer games in both English and an Asian language.
One in five Bourke St witnesses to develop mental health problems: expert
Mark Kulkens' jaw tightens and he feels a tremor in his chest as he describes the images of a city in crisis.
School experiment pitched as an answer to unemployment
A program begun in the US links local businesses with students in an effort to foster employment in science, technology and engineering, but critics say there is a lack of evidence that it works.
One in three students are dropping out of university
One in three Australian students are not completing their university degree within six years, new figures show.
Victoria's public schools to be most expensive in the country: report
By the time a baby born in 2017 graduates from a government school in Victoria, their parents would have spent $77,000 on their education, new figures show.
Blind students miss out on specialist services due to privacy
Many blind students in Victoria will not have affordable access to a tailored service because the education department is refusing to release the names of the students, or their schools, due to "privacy" concerns.
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