“The children, as soon as they have become at all expert in this tracing of the letters, take great pleasure in repeating it with closed eyes, letting the sandpaper lead them in following the form which they do not see.” This ...
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Teaching degrees are used by universities as a cash cow and this can partially explain startling teacher attrition rates, an expert has said. Recent research from the Australian National University has shown that 30 to 50 per cent of teachers ...
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The private VET scandal shouldn’t turn students off taking school-based apprenticeships, Group Training Australia has said. Jim Barron, GTA chief executive, said these apprenticeships are a great way for school students to get a career kickstart. In these programs, students ...
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Education policy rhetoric pigeonholes private schools as wealthy and the public system as strapped for cash. But a new report from the Centre for Independent Studies has aimed to bust these stereotypes as far from reality. One School does not ...
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It's the youth who embrace technology, and one Sydney Catholic school seems to be proving this. Clancy Catholic College, at West Hoxton in Sydney’s south-west, is 10 years old. The school led Clancy Connect, which linked students to experts in fields ...
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