A contractor who contaminated a Melbourne primary school with asbestos has been ordered to perform a detailed clean-up. The unnamed contractor carted truckloads of soil strewn with asbestos fragments into Syndal South Primary School in Mt Waverley as part of ...
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Study finds 4 elements of an outstanding school
A pilot study from Southern Cross University has identified the four critical elements in creating an ‘outstanding’ school. The key elements are: an effective and resilient principal; team-based teaching; making decisions based on reliable data; and an intensive and ongoing, coaching mentoring and ...
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A plan to cut childcare benefits from parents who don't immunise their children should be reviewed after a year, a parliamentary committee has recommended. A Senate inquiry report on Wednesday says concerns the `no jab, no pay' legislation could infringe ...
More »ANZAC history, multiculturalism linked: official
Multicultural Australia has its roots in ANZAC history and school students must understand this, an official has said. Chris Fox, chief executive of the Camp Gallipoli Foundation – which aims to educate young people about ANZAC soldiers – said Australian history ...
More »Research, classroom come together in writing analysis tool
A device developed for Charles Sturt University research is helping teachers assess, monitor and report on their students’ writing development. A team from CSU’s Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE) collected 3000 writing samples from 1799 New ...
More »Teacher laptop pay deductions ‘unreasonable’: court
More than 40,000 Victorian teachers may be set to share in millions of dollars in wage repayments after the Federal Court of Australia last week ruled that pay deductions the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development made to pay ...
More »School leavers should prepare for career switching: SEEK
School leavers should ready themselves for careers across different workplaces and industries, a representative from SEEK has said. As high school final exams begin to wrap up for Year 12 students, Tony Barrett, general manager of SEEK Learning, said career ...
More »USYD shows real-world STEM to schoolkids
Science and maths came to life at the University of Sydney STEM Day of Inquiry. The event gave 300 Year 9 students from 11 schools across Western Sydney a real-life look at science in action. It encouraged students to pursue their ...
More »Education must learn more from its failures: expert
Education must learn to get better at getting better, an expert has said. In a guest lecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, professor Tony Bryk, president of the US-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said education fails ...
More »Qld Catholic teachers stop work again
The Queensland Catholic Education Commission has criticised the latest stop work action by teachers in many Queensland Catholic schools as industrial negotiations over pay and conditions continues. More than 7500 Independent Education Union members in more than 180 schools were authorised to stop work ...
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