A former employee at one of Melbourne’s most prestigious schools has admitted she ripped off the school to feed her gambling habit. Frances Walshe, 65, pleading guilty in the County Court of Victoria on Thursday to pilfering more than $400,000 from Melbourne ...
More »Nominations open for Australia’s best teachers
A new campaign is set to shift the way we view the role of teachers in Australia by highlighting the realities of the profession in 2023. News Corp Australia – in partnership with ANZ, Teachers Mutual Bank, Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic ...
More »School leaders express screen-time concerns
Excess screen time and a decline in emotional stability are among principals' top concerns for students in 2023, according to new research. This year’s Child Impact Survey from Camp Australia drew insight from 130 principals and over 5,000 families in ...
More »Nüdel Kart: giving students the critical skills needed to thrive in an AI world
Just in case you’ve missed the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. I get it, artificial intelligence in sci-fi novels has been around for decades, but in real life, AI has so far failed to deliver anything that has made any real ...
More »Union rejects $9.6 million teacher supply plans
A multi-million dollar package to address rising teacher supply shortages in Western Australian schools has been labelled “desperate” by the state’s education union. The WA government’s $9.6 million initiative to address teacher shortages would see early-career teachers sent into state ...
More »School backflips on toilet scanner plan
A Sydney high school has backed down on a plan to start scanning students’ fingerprints when they use the toilets, after claiming it would stamp out “vandalism." The proposed measure by Moorebank High School, west of Sydney, raised alarm with one ...
More »Is maths a dying art? – opinion
Recent headlines about students disengaging from mathematics paints a worrying picture. Some experts propose innovative ideas to rehaul the curriculum, others lament about the need to keep things as they have always been, teachers are given advice about how to ...
More »Can ex-teachers help solve Australia’s great teacher resignation?
Australia’s need for educators has been driven by an interplay of salary, burnout and dissatisfaction, but new research will seek to find answers from a largely overlooked stakeholder - ex-teachers. Experts from three major universities will survey teachers across the ...
More »Surprising detail in schoolies arrests
Police have released information about the surprising number of arrests made on the first night of schoolies, as thousands of school leavers descend on the Gold Coast. About 20,000 schoolies are expected attend the first week of celebrations, prompting extra police officers called ...
More »Australia’s best young spellers awarded
The nation’s best young spellers have stumped the Prime Minister in a grilling which would put the opposition to shame. Zachary Cheng, 13, Ozi Egesi, 11, and 10-year-old Joanne Lee were crowned champions across three age groups in the Prime ...
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