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There are expectations a new TAFE course on cultural tourism will get more Indigenous people in far-west New South Wales employed in the industry.
Topics: indigenous-culture, rural-tourism, rural-youth, education, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, work, travel-and-tourism, broken-hill-2880
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Angry parents of the Islamic college at Croydon in Adelaide, which has lost government funding and might be forced to close, say the school should have ensured all taxpayers' money went into schooling and not elsewhere.
Topics: schools, education, religion-and-beliefs, islam, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, croydon-5008, adelaide-5000, sa
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Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Katharine Murphy, Michael Jensen and Josh Bornstein
Interview with: John Daley
The panel discusses CHOICE's rental survey, Donald Trump’s two-state solution stance & calls to remove religious classes from NSW schools.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, community-and-society, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedIn a time of so-called "alternative" facts, fake news and spurious claims, it's perfect timing for the return of Fact Check to ABC news outlets, writes founding editor Russell Skelton.
Topics: media, industry, journalism, education, university-and-further-education, australia
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| UpdatedThe Indigenous Aurukun primary school run in partnership with Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation routinely overstated enrolments because there was a misunderstanding of policy, netting up to $815,000 in extra payments, a report finds.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, activism-and-lobbying, schools, public-sector, aurukun-4871, qld, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedFederal funding for the Islamic College of South Australia will be cut off from mid-April after the school failed to meet conditions imposed by the Commonwealth.
Topics: education, religion-and-beliefs, federal-government, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, croydon-5008, sa
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| UpdatedFor many disability and education advocates it's confirmation of their long-held belief, but new figures appear to suggest students with a disability face an enormous funding gap in Australian schools.
Topics: education, access-to-education, disabilities, health, australia
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Topics: community-education, education, water, children, swimming, surf-life-saving, mildura-3500
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Topics: community-education, education, water, children, swimming, surf-life-saving, mildura-3500
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Topics: community-education, education, water, children, swimming, surf-life-saving, mildura-3500
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Topics: education, public-schools, dirranbandi-4486
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| UpdatedThirteen young Sydneysiders facing issues including homelessness and substance abuse join Mission Australia's Sounds of the Street program to shake off their demons and record their own album titled Mess.
Topics: education, music, community-and-society, youth, mental-health, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedSchool children in a small town in western New South Wales hit the pots and pans to help provide energy for firefighters.
Topics: agribusiness, bushfire, food-and-cooking, education, human-interest, coolah-2843, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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| UpdatedSchool principal Paul Browning says the education system is crushing creativity, so he's on a mission to convince the Federal Government to take a closer look at the issue.
Topics: education, work, government-and-politics, bald-hills-4036, australia, qld
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| UpdatedAs the war enters its sixth year, teachers in Syria's refugee camps are trying to make do with the little they have — but the students there face a bleak future in a life disrupted by war.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, education, unrest-conflict-and-war, poverty, syrian-arab-republic
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Topics: refugees, community-and-society, education, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic
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Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, education, schools, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic
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Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, education, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe ABC's Fact Check unit is back in business as a collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, after being closed in 2016 due to budget cuts.
Topics: media, industry, education, university-and-further-education, melbourne-3000, australia
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Topics: community-and-society, history, education, visual-art, albury-2640
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| UpdatedThe principal at North Brisbane's St Paul's School, Paul Browning, says the way schools teach kids is killing their creativity and that teachers need to let go of some control to foster innovative thinking.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is applauding progress in health and education ahead of the release of the latest report card into Indigenous disadvantage.
Topics: indigenous-policy, health-policy, education, australia
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The Q&A panel disagrees on the government's proposed cuts to early childhood education.
Topics: access-to-education, government-and-politics, federal-government, welfare, community-and-society, education, preschool, australia
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Topics: alternative-medicine, health, education, townsville-4810
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Topics: alternative-medicine, health, education, townsville-4810