Education
Digital divide: Students filing assignments on phones or using public computers
Students from poorer families are resorting to using phones and public libraries to get homework done, leaving many falling behind.
- by Caroline Schelle
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Six years after first school strike, climate kids march on
In 2018, they were inspired. One year later, they helped lead 100,000 young people in one of Melbourne’s largest environmental protests. Was it worth it?
- by Caroline Schelle
Bid to keep out girls from Newington College suffers major blow
A breakaway faction has failed in its bid to stop plans by Newington College to admit girls to the historic private school.
- by Lucy Carroll
‘Disgraceful squabbling’: Students suffer as governments brawl over school billions
The Victorian government is bristling after Canberra tied federal funding to school reforms including mandatory phonics tests. Education advocates want an end to the stoush.
- by Noel Towell
NSW schools face missing out on billions in clash over funding
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has given the states a deadline of the end of September to indicate if they will accept a new 10-year school funding deal.
- by Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
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University
The secret probe into university facing foreign student allegations
The higher education regulator is reviewing allegations a university is poaching students and has low English standards for foreign students, documents reveal.
- by Daniella White
Prestigious Kew private school adopts online learning to prepare students for university
One of Melbourne’s most prestigious Catholic all-girls schools, Genazzano FCJ, has launched a voluntary hybrid online and on-campus learning program.
- by Bridie Smith
Teacher who faked qualifications to gain principal jobs avoids jail
A Melbourne teacher who faked degrees to gain jobs as a principal defrauded the Education Department of more than $690,000.
- by Caroline Schelle
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Education
The Victorian schools being sued over historical child sex abuse claims
A convicted murderer says being sexually abused as a schoolboy led him to a life of crime, as a wave of historical sex abuse claims hits hundreds of Victorian schools.
- by Caroline Schelle and Noel Towell
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Education
Victoria’s hot spots for youth homeless revealed amid push for more help to house them
Charity Launch Housing has used data on crime, homelessness and unemployment to identify the five Victorian council areas where funding is most needed.
- by Noel Towell
WA parents are flocking to get tutors for their kids. Why?
There’s something all these parents got a chance to witness firsthand in recent years, one industry veteran says.
- by Holly Thompson