The federal Education Minister was in the ‘hot seat’ in a recent news podcast where primary-aged kids grilled him on his education policies. Minister Jason Clare joined the Squiz Kids Today podcast, where young Australians asked him about teacher shortages, ...
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Kids General Assembly says ‘listen to us’
An AI amalgamation of 80 faces and voices of children around the globe has delivered a manifesto on behalf of the world’s children to global leaders. ‘Uni’ was unveiled at the Children’s General Assembly in Billund, Denmark, in September to ...
More »‘Huge jump’ in violent incidents in SA schools
Reports of violence, bullying, and drug taking in South Australian schools have risen to over 10,000 last year. Incidents of violence in school spiked by over 550 to 2915 last year with increasing reports of verbal abuse, intruders on campus, ...
More »Authors, poets and illustrators trolled in the wake of HSC
Authors, illustrators and poets featured in this year’s Higher School Certificate (HSC) English exams are to be given additional support following online abuse and trolling from some year 12 students in former years. The 2023 HSC kicked off with written ...
More »NSW students wave goodbye to their smartphones
High schoolers with smartphone separation anxiety can wave goodbye to playground Snapchats and swimming carnival selfies with a hard-line ban on mobile phones across all public schools starting on the first day of term four. Some schools have forked out ...
More »Disability commissioners fail to agree on education segregation
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability was unable to agree on an approach to phasing out ‘special schools’ The Commission released its final report on September 29 after four and a half years ...
More »Vic govt to pay for failing to protect Jewish students
The state of Victoria must apologise and pay over $435,000 in compensation for failing to protect five Jewish students from anti-Semitic bullying at a Melbourne state school. The case was brought by former Brighton Secondary College (BSC) students Joel and ...
More »Teachers spend $1000 a year on classroom supplies
An Australian Education Union (AEU) 2023 poll found that public school teachers fork out a combined $159.5m a year to buy classroom supplies vital to education due to the underfunding of public schools by governments. The September results said 85 ...
More »‘Co-design’ is the latest buzzword in Indigenous education policy. Does it live up to the hype?
Co-design is the new buzz word being applied to relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. It has been used as a key part of the Indigenous Voice process. But it is also talked about when it comes to health policy ...
More »What’s in it for teachers? NSW budget breakdown
The Minns government's first NSW state budget released on Tuesday put essential workers at its forefront, allocating $9.8 billion to the public education system to focus on upgrading schools and getting rid of the wages cap to tackle the understaffed ...
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