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NSW education officials have ‘no records’ of how many teachers have been vaccinated
NSW education officials have no idea how many teachers have been vaccinated, even as preparations continue to bring year 12 students back to Sydney classrooms. Authorities have also revealed they have no clue how many individuals will be out and ...
More »St Bernadette’s Primary Castle Hill closed due to Covid-19, teachers could strike over return to school
Two schools in Sydney have closed due to Covid-19 exposure, including a primary school in the Hills shire. St Bernadette’s Primary Castle Hill was slammed shut after a person who attended the after hours service provided by the school tested ...
More »Pfizer vaccine for Year 12 students in return to school plan
**Updated 29 July 2021** Some Sydney students in their last year of high school will be given priority for the Pfizer vaccine, after the government revealed doses would be directed from other parts of the state to allow a return to ...
More »Why would I want a ‘dead horse’? New slang contributions sought by Australian Dictionary Centre
I grew up in a house where slang was part of our everyday vernacular, something that brought us together in many ways as part of a distinct social class living in a particular moment in time. Beer cans were ‘tinnies’, ...
More »Almost half of Tasmanians ‘functionally illiterate’
Almost 50 per cent of Tasmania’s population is functionally illiterate, a parliamentary committee heard on Tuesday. Tasmanians are believed to be disproportionately affected by illiteracy due to intergenerational and regional disadvantage, as well as lower education attainment among young Tasmanians. ...
More »Sydney COVID lockdown: learning from home extended, HSC concessions
People living in Greater Sydney will be in lockdown until at least July 30 as the NSW government battles to contain the city’s outbreak of Covid-19. As 97 new cases of community transmission were announced on Wednesday, NSW Premier Gladys ...
More »10,000 teachers in south-west Sydney to be prioritised in vaccine rollout
More than 10,000 teachers in COVID-19 plagued south-west Sydney are set to be prioritised in the state's vaccine rollout, the state government announced on Monday. With the number of COVID cases soaring across Sydney 112 people tested positive up until ...
More »Reading Australia Fellow for 2021 wants to connect students to Australian literature, abolish aliteracy
Edwina West from Oakhill College in Sydney has been awarded the prestigious Reading Australia Fellowship Award for 2021 for the project Combating Aliteracy with Australian Literature. The award, which is supported by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, was announced during this ...
More »Sydney teacher who sexually assaulted student jailed
The heartbreaking toll a Sydney school teacher wrought on a teenage student when she sexually assaulted him has been revealed with a court hearing “he struggles to smile about anything anymore”. Monica Elizabeth Young was handcuffed and taken away by ...
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