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| UpdatedSigns are being installed around Wilcannia in far-west New South Wales in an effort to increase visibility of Indigenous perspectives of the town.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-culture, community-and-society, youth, schools, history, education, travel-and-tourism, wilcannia-2836
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| UpdatedPlans for a new academy for gifted kids in Victoria would help many students thrive, writes Erin Stewart. But for others, selective schools can be pressure cookers.
Topics: schools, teachers, bullying, children, youth, australia
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| UpdatedAn Australian playwright, whose work has been a standard study text, raises concerns about proposed changes to the HSC English curriculum, which favour bringing in more Shakespeare.
Topics: education, education-industry, access-to-education, secondary-schools, schools, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, nsw
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The Story Island Project is collecting real-life tales of life on and around the Brooker Highway to inspire creativity and improve literacy among school students.
Topics: community-and-society, community-organisations, history, primary-schools, schools, human-interest, glenorchy-7010, hobart-7000
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The WA Premier and Opposition Leader clash over voluntary euthanasia and the Safe Schools program during a public question and answer session organised by the Australian Christian Lobby in the lead-up to the state election.
Topics: elections, religion-and-beliefs, government-and-politics, schools, euthanasia, wa
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| UpdatedThe lack of a consistent policy for dealing with heatwaves in Australian schools is leaving children vulnerable to heat exposure, Dr Brendon Hyndman writes.
Topics: public-schools, primary-schools, secondary-schools, schools, education, weather, australia, southern-cross-university-coffs-harbour-2450, lismore-2480
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An Illawarra high school teacher accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student whom he groomed online remains in custody after a bid for bail is refused.
Topics: sexual-offences, schools, wollongong-2500
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My Year 12 Life executive producer Laura Waters and show subject, Tom, offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like in the final year of high school.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, television, australia
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My Year 12 Life participant Eden Wallis talks about the difficulties of dyslexia, February 16, 2017.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, australia
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My Year 12 Life participant Zoe Mallett talks about anxiety in her final year of high school, February 16, 2017.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, australia
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My Year 12 Life participant Angela Zhang talks about coping with parental pressures in high school, February 16, 2017.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, australia
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My Year 12 Life participant Tom Paidoussis talks about juggling his sporting priorities with his school workload, February 16, 2017.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, australia
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My Year 12 Life participant Tom Forrest muses on the importance of his friends as a support network, February 16, 2017.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, australia
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My Year 12 Life participant Ben Kenworthy discusses making the step up to year 12 after taking it easy in earlier years, February 16, 2017.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, australia
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Is year 12 really worth all the stress, and does it prepare you for the real world? Students who self-documented their entire final year for the ABC give their verdicts.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, australia, wa, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, nsw, act, kununurra-6743
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Reword is an online tool that identifies cyberbullying language, and following the success of the desktop interface, fundraising is underway to develop a mobile app.
Topics: internet-technology, bullying, schools, community-and-society, mental-health, internet-culture, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Western Australian education system is failing to meet the needs of some highly disabled children because of inflexibility and a lack of expertise, an experienced educator says.
Topics: schools, disabilities, wa
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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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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church reveals which schools and children's homes had more than 20 claims of child sexual abuse — one institution alone faced 219 accusations.
Topics: catholic, schools, child-abuse, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, australia, hamilton-2303, new-norcia-6509, box-hill-3128, cheltenham-3192, goodwood-5034, bathurst-2795, wandering-6308, engadine-2233, hunters-hill-2110, ballarat-3350, morisset-2264, marion-5043, sunbury-3429, westmead-2145, adamstown-2289, tardun-6628, pearce-2607, nudgee-4014, geelong-3220, south-melbourne-3205, bindoon-6502, wilson-6107, waterford-6152, beaudesert-4285
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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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Increased workloads, threats of violence from parents, and a lack of support staff are taking a toll on principals, with warnings that unless there is change many will leave the industry or suffer mental health issues.
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Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, education, schools, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic
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Topics: australian-football-league, primary-schools, schools, sport, renmark-5341
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Port Adelaide Football Club players run a super clinic for school children in the Riverland at the Berri Football Club. Filmed by ABC video journalist Isabel Dayman.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, schools
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Samuel Koschel was born with only one good ear and is spending the year learning classroom and social skills for his transition into a mainstream school.
Topics: hearing, education, child-health-and-behaviour, children, schools, primary-schools, ear-nose-and-throat-disorders, sydney-2000