New child sex charges have been laid against a former Adelaide teacher who allegedly procured a child for sex. Former Underdale High School teacher Natalie Linda Zuccon, 36, was arrested in April and first charged with one aggravated count of ...
More »Victoria’s ambitious plan to vaccinate all senior students by October
Victorian officials have revealed an ambitious plan to get the state’s senior students vaccinated within weeks amid a desperate public push for students to go back to school before crucial exams in October. Premier Daniel Andrews on Wednesday announced from ...
More »No more delays: Catholic Schools NSW boss calls for HSC timetable release
The various representatives of Catholic schools around Sydney and NSW have been front and centre during continued arguments about returning to face-to-face learning, teacher vaccinations and the HSC. Earlier this year, Sydney Catholic Schools executive director Tony Farley called for ...
More »Adelaide schools rocked by separate ‘scissor attacks’, Victorian year 12s to be vaccinated before October exams
Two teenagers from different schools have each allegedly been stabbed with scissors in separate horrifying incidents that left one with injuries to her abdomen and throat. A female student from Avenues College is now in a serious condition. Police were ...
More »Online school learning thrown into chaos amid widespread Australian Zoom outage
Online learning was thrown into chaos on Monday morning, with technology giant Zoom suffering a widespread outage. Reports to outage website Down Detector spiked from almost zero on Sunday evening to almost 1200 by 9am on Monday. The outage caused ...
More »‘The future will be dire’: NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos speaks to Education Review
The emergence of the COVID-19 Delta variant has brought the pandemic back to our front door and thrown the lives of many Australians into chaos. This has been exemplified by the education sector, with both teachers and students, particularly in ...
More »VAX bookings open for people aged 16-39 years, under 19s most affected group in current outbreak
Young people given priority access to the Pfizer vaccine in Sydney’s 12 local government areas of concern can now book their appointments. People aged 16-39 living in Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith and ...
More »Assigned classroom seating can promote unlikely friendships, fight discrimination
A new study by researchers from Europe and the United States has found that where kids sit in a classroom matters. In a field study in Hungarian primary schools, a total of 3,000 students were randomly transferred to almost 200 ...
More »Trinity Grammar School teacher sentenced for sending explicit messages to 13yo girl
A former senior teacher at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools has avoided jail for sending sexual messages to who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Alexander David Simpson, who taught at boys’ school Trinity Grammar in the city’s inner west, ...
More »‘Dangerous, unsafe and unwise’: Positive cases at schools in NSW central coast, Lake Macquarie regions, unions want face-to-face learning return scrapped
The Bondi COVID-19 cluster crippling greater Sydney is threatening to bleed out into the regions of NSW, as two schools in the north of the state shut after positive cases among students. The ongoing lockdown and growing daily cases is ...
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