Education
Unnecessary or overdue? Age readers split on new school mask advice
The return of a recommendation for children aged eight and up to wear masks indoors at school has received a mixed response.
- by Adam Carey
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Editorial
Education
Surge in school leavers with unscored VCE raises thorny questions
Choosing the unscored route, whether it be for mental health reasons or because an ATAR isn’t needed, is not a decision to take lightly.
- The Age's View
NSW schools to begin four-week COVID-19 ‘blitz’ as term 3 begins
The NSW Education department has stopped short of mandating masks, but staff and students will be strongly encouraged to wear them.
- by Daniella White and Lucy Carroll
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Education
‘Contagion effect’: Students choose unscored VCE in record numbers
More than one in 10 students chose to dump the ATAR last year after juggling remote learning in their pandemic-affected final years of school.
- by Madeleine Heffernan, Adam Carey and Nicole Precel
Opinion
Literature
On the fear of poetry - and the bounty we are denying our children
Rather than treating poetry as optional added extra at school, it should be central to the subject of English.
- by Gabrielle Carey
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Education
‘Major overhaul’: One-fifth of selective school places to go to disadvantaged students
The change to admissions, which will come into effect for 2023 enrolments, is one of the biggest overhauls to ever hit public school selective streams.
- by Lucy Carroll
Why private girls’ schools leader has switched to alternative co-ed
After two decades of leading some of the city’s prestigious private girls’ schools – including Wenona, MLC and St Catherine’s – Diana Drummond is taking the top job at Middle Cove’s Steiner school.
- by Lucy Carroll
Traralgon teacher heads to Harvard to help Latrobe Valley weather move away from coal
A Latrobe Valley science teacher is going to Harvard in the US to study coalmining communities in economic transition, thanks to a $90,000 postgrad scholarship.
- by Adam Carey
Large Melbourne school cancels classes, warns remote learning may be needed
A critical staff shortage triggered parental complaints and “lost learning” at one of Melbourne’s biggest schools, as principals brace for further teacher shortages.
- by Nicole Precel and Adam Carey
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Education
Shore School principal dismissed amid divisions over leadership
Timothy Petterson will not return to Shore School for term three after concerns about his leadership prompted a review by the school’s council.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Education
Girls’ schools buck decline in maths participation
Girls involvement in higher-level STEM subjects is broadly declining. But at all-girls schools, the trend is reversed.
- by Loren Bridge