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Schools in wealthy areas claim more HSC exam help as provisions double in a decade
More than 44 per cent of students at high-fee private schools, including Redlands and The McDonald College, claimed HSC disability provisions last year.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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NSW principals exposed to rising threats and violence from parents, students
An annual survey of principals and deputies found 44 per cent had been exposed to violence in schools, with more staff reporting they were victims of cyberbullying.
- by Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll
‘Running scared’: Principals bitten, abused and finding knives as violence grows
Some Australian school principals have resorted to asking to wear body cameras to protect themselves from litigation when dealing with violent and abusive students.
- by Robyn Grace
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Education
The winners in radical shake-up of opportunity classes at Sydney schools
Lindfield East and Maroubra Junction Public are among the schools gaining new classes for gifted students, while others will have their OC intakes halved.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
Overdue report pinpoints looming shortage of high school teachers
Demand for teachers is expected to outpace supply in Victoria by 2028, with an expected shortfall of more than 5000 staff largely fuelled by shortages in the secondary sector.
- by Robyn Grace
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Education
VCE exams review finds more errors, poorly worded questions
More than a dozen flawed questions have been uncovered in previous mathematics tests after a series of mistakes in last year’s VCE exams prompted a review.
- by Robyn Grace
‘Victimhood culture’: King’s School head takes aim at ‘wokeness’
Headmaster Tony George says children attending non-government schools are being increasingly ridiculed.
- by Christopher Harris
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Private schools
Cranbrook crisis escalates as headmaster threatens legal action
Former headmaster Nicholas Sampson has engaged high-profile lawyers as the dispute between him and the school’s council intensifies.
- by Lucy Carroll
No hat, no play is ditched after grade 6. One high school is changing that
Eva Urtone’s primary school had a no-hat, no-play policy, but the policy was forgotten by year seven. Her high school is about to become one of the first in the state to mandate hats.
- by Robyn Grace
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Five Minutes with Fitz
I couldn’t solve this maths whiz’s problem. Without HSC maths, could you?
Lily Serna, “one of the faces of mathematics in Australia”, says maths not being a compulsory subject in the HSC doesn’t add up.
- by Peter FitzSimons
The public school charging students to receive a report card
The education department has asked a Sydney selective school to be mindful of language after it sent letters asking parents to pay $2500 a year for their child’s public education.
- by Mary Ward