Schools are ideal places to empower students through leadership opportunities, from a place on the student representative council (SRC) to president of the chess club. Students who undertake leadership opportunities are often the same students who achieve higher grades, are ...
More »New research shows Andrew Tate’s effect on school boys
Content warning: This article refers to sexual assault, sexual harassment, sex trafficking and human trafficking. Support resources can be found here. A new piece of research has found Romanian-based self-proclaimed misogynist 'manfluencer' Andrew Tate promoted a culture of domination and ...
More »NSW teachers get ‘explicit teaching’ training
All NSW teachers will undergo 'explicit teaching' training in their staff development days at the start of term two, after it was revealed some disadvantaged schools outperformed their high-fee counterparts in NAPLAN results. Explicit teaching involves a teacher clearly showing ...
More »Govt officially increases public school funding
The federal government committed to increasing its share of public school funding from 20 per cent to 22.5 per cent on Tuesday – a $3bn per year investment and the biggest funding shakeup in more than a decade. To receive ...
More »‘Get educated, Chris Minns’: Students skip school to march for Palestine
Hundreds of school students across Sydney skipped school to march in solidarity for Palestine on Friday afternoon. Echoes calling for an end to the bombardment of Gaza and 'free Palestine' were chanted, whooped, and cheered in Sydney's Town Hall. High ...
More »Principal holds fort amid teacher shortage
A primary school in country Victoria is set to start 2024 with no year three to six teacher despite multiple efforts to fill the vacancy. Located in a small tourist town approximately 300 km west of Melbourne, Minyip Primary School ...
More »Teacher’s accreditation rethought to lessen admin burden
NSW teachers will no longer need their accreditation signed off by their school principal under a new policy of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) that comes into effect from November 1. Teachers will still need to complete the existing ...
More »Will free teaching degrees fix the teacher shortage? It’s more complicated than that
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has opened a new front in the national campaign to attract and retain teachers. Amid ongoing teacher shortages, Victoria will offer fee-free education for high school teaching degrees from next year. This is similar to the ...
More »Queensland tradies and teachers encouraged to join forces
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace announced a $10 million expansion to the Trade to Teach internship program on Tuesday - a pathway that allows tradies to put down the tools and teach their skills. The new $20 million scheme is ...
More »Single-sex schools achieve higher NAPLAN marks than co-ed peers
Single-sex classes performed better in NAPLAN tests than their co-ed peers, a Catholic Schools NSW analysis of 2019-2022 data found. Both reading and numeracy tests saw all students who attend single-sex schools achieve better results than students at co-ed schools. ...
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