Education
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Phones
Are smartphones the key to improving school results?
Calls to ban smartphones from classrooms may be overlooking the benefits of making better use of them.
- by Joanne Orlando
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Education
PISA and NAPLAN are 'warping' our schools
A focus on leagues tables is the enemy of a well-rounded, useful education, writes SCEGGS head Jenny Allum.
- by Jenny Allum
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Education
Students as young as eight banned from classroom by teachers
Row erupts over student taught in ‘solitary confinement’.
- by Alison Brown
Education
The Sydney boys' school preparing to welcome girls
Making a boys' school co-ed involves more than building new bathrooms and introducing new sports.
- by Jordan Baker
Education
When augmented reality meets novels
A Macquarie University project is making reading books a more dynamic experience in a bid to attract more young readers.
Education
The power and privilege behind the St Paul's scandal
St Paul's College is recruiting rural and state school students to dilute the dominance of boys from the wealthy private schools.
- by Jordan Baker
Education
'Broke my heart': Canberra principals join calls to replace NAPLAN
Canberra principals say NAPLAN data is too slow to help in classrooms but testing causes significant disruption and anxiety.
- by Sherryn Groch
Crime
Police launch taskforce after children stalked, grabbed in Canberra
Detective Superintendant Scott Moller revealed there had been fourteen such incidents reported since February.
- by Sherryn Groch
Courts
Qld teacher accused of having sex with student suspended: Tribunal
Man allegedly had relationships with two other former students, teaching body says.
- by Alison Brown
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Education
Sex, booze and humiliation: Culture at exclusive college exposed
A new report has delivered a damning assessment of the boozy, sexist culture at one of Australia's most elite residential university colleges
- by Jordan Baker
Education
Teacher faces deregistration after 'sending 1650 messages to student'
A male teacher developed an “unhealthy attachment” to a 16-year-old boy while working at a state high school, a teachers' watchdog hearing has heard.
- by Henrietta Cook