A Victorian teacher is the first to launch legal action against the state’s ‘no jab, no job’ vaccine mandate. Relief teacher Belinda Cetnar launched an urgent application against the policy and will appear in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The ...
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‘Not without risks, not without challenges’: NSWTF president on return to school plan – podcast
As NSW students prepare for a staggered approach back to the classroom, Education Review spoke to the president of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos, about how well prepared the public sector is for the final school term. ...
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Dozens of infectious VCE students have narrowly avoided passing Covid-19 onto their fellow senior students, after a testing blitz picked up the virus in would-be GAT sitters. Deputy Premier James Merlino confirmed 33 students would not be able to sit ...
More »New survey shows high levels of trust for teachers in Aussie schools
Confidence and trust in teachers continues to grow as a new survey found that 72 per cent of people trusted that teachers' work was in the best interests of students. As the pandemic has forced remote learning on many families ...
More »The importance of classroom ventilation beyond the pandemic – podcast
As NSW students prepare for a staged return to school around mid-October, concerns have been expressed about the lack of air purification systems in NSW classrooms as well as the absence of CO2 monitors to check air quality. However, there ...
More »World Teacher’s Day special: preparing pre-service teachers for a post-COVID classroom
As we celebrate another World Teacher's Day, it is fair to say that the global pandemic has been unlike anything we have experienced collectively as teachers before. It has created pressure in the mass adoption of remote learning, and exposed ...
More »Schools steel themselves for wave of kids back at school before original return date
*Since this story was published it has been confirmed that schools will commence face-to-face learning one week earlier than planned. Kindergarten and years 1 and 12 will return from October 18 and teachers must be vaccinated. Principals across NSW are ...
More »One-in-five parents needed mental health support for their children during the pandemic, but struggled to get it
The strains of COVID-19 are continuing to seriously affect the mental health of our children, with one in five parents or carers admitting to needing support for the child's mental health during the pandmeic. As states around the nation plan ...
More »Why the Lung Foundation is helping young people ‘unveil what they inhale’ – podcast
While cigarette smoking has been on the decline for some time now, the growing popularity of e-cigarettes or vaping among teenagers and young adults has parents, teachers and experts across the country concerned. And with their lolly-like flavourings, bright colours ...
More »We can’t stop teenagers sexting, so let’s educate them about safety: expert
We can't stop teenagers sending and receiving sexually explicit texts, so it's time we started to include sexting as part of sex education, an expert says. Professor Andrew Goldsmith from Flinders University is part of a longitudinal study tracking a ...
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