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| UpdatedLabor's announcement to scrap plans for a high school in City Beach and build a high-rise public secondary school in the city instead is "totally wrong", the WA Premier says.
Topics: education, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is considering introducing mandatory skills testing for Year One students, a move which Labor says will not help improve Australia's international education ranking.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, federal-government, primary, australia
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| UpdatedWith the WA election just six weeks away, the major parties have been out on the road spruiking funding commitments in the areas of surfing, education and multiculturalism.
Topics: government-and-politics, education, wa
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The Malek Fahd Islamic School in south-western Sydney will reopen its doors next week, despite the ongoing legal battles over losing $19 million worth of federal funding.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, education, secondary-schools, community-and-society, greenacre-2190, nsw, sydney-2000
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A six-week old sea lion pup is the second of its species to be born into captivity in an Australian zoo in the past five years.
Topics: animals, animals-and-nature, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, education, conservation, travel-and-tourism, coffs-harbour-2450
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A teacher helps her students.
Topics: education
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A failed online project meant to connect students, teachers and parents at Victorian Government schools was corrupt, and cost the taxpayer between $127 and $240 million dollars, the state's watchdog finds.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, education, corruption, melbourne-3000, glen-waverley-3150
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Julia Gillard is among those receiving Australia Day honours, but says a gender imbalance remains in how the gongs are distributed.
Topics: education, women, human-interest, australia-day, awards-and-prizes, gillard-julia, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000
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The removal of the Federal Government's Schoolkids Bonus and the introduction of Bring Your Own Device policies, has many parents reporting an increase in school costs this year.
Topics: education, access-to-education, government-and-politics, federal-government, family-and-children, family, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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Ten hairdressers in Devonport are being turned into 'reading salons' in a bid to encourage the city's children to read.
Topics: books-literature, english-literature, education, community-and-society, children, devonport-7310
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Topics: education, devonport-7310
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| UpdatedMadeline Luk has a rare form of dwarfism but it doesn't stop the six-year-old from tottering about the classroom or playing handball in her power wheelchair in the playground.
Topics: disabilities, education, schools, health, human-interest, sydney-2000
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A boy with albinism is planning to teach his new friends about the condition when he starts high school.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, children, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedABC Mid North Coast journalist, Emma Siossian, and three other first-time school mums share their mixed emotions about their children starting school.
Topics: primary-schools, education, parenting, port-macquarie-2444
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What's so hard about teaching? Words of advice for new teachers.
Topics: education
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Topics: education, rockhampton-4700
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It's back to school for thousands of children. But for kids like 11-year-old Drewe Mace, it involves travelling hundreds of kilometres to start their school year.
Topics: primary, education, schools, youth, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: education, rockhampton-4700
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As students return to school across the country, boarding school staff prepare for another year of making students feel at home.
Topics: education, family-and-children, rural, rockhampton-4700
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Sydney Story Factory director Dr Catherine Keenan prepares to pass the baton as Australia's Local Hero and reflects on a year of helping students express themselves through writing and storytelling.
Topics: australia-day, education, community-and-society, community-organisations, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFor some students, starting school means leaving home as they travel more than 2,000 kilometres to board for the academic year.
Topics: education, human-interest, schools, east-brisbane-4169
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| UpdatedChildren who are younger than their school peers are "twice as likely" to be on medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than their older classmates, a new study finds, raising concerns the younger children may have been misdiagnosed.
Topics: adhd, medical-research, diseases-and-disorders, health, education, children, australia
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| UpdatedThe number of students coming to Australia from the Pacific islands has stagnated since the turn of the century, with the notable exception of Papua New Guinea.
Topics: education, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe acting police commissioner in Papua New Guinea has promised that investigations into the shootings at the University of PNG six months ago are ongoing, in the face of fresh demands from Human Rights Watch for those responsible to be brought to justice.
Topics: education, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Topics: schools, education, family-and-children, mackay-4740