One principal’s passion for teaching has yielded a fulfilling career of helping others to achieve. Frank Ali did not begin his career as a teacher, though he completed his studies to become one in the 1970s. Instead, he entered the ...
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Help students stay sun smart by introducing sunnies to school
Ophthalmologists are calling on parents to ensure their children’s eyes are properly protected while they’re at school, and for schools to help out. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists has issued a statement saying that schools should ...
More »Malek Fahd Islamic School to fight funding cut, again
Sydney’s Malek Fahd Islamic School will continue the fight for public funding, with its management now intending to lodge an appeal to the Federal Court. On December 23 2016, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) upheld the federal Education Department’s decision to ...
More »Tribunal upholds $19 million cut to Islamic school
Australia’s largest Islamic school will have its $19 million in annual federal funding cut, following a decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Explaining the decision, Bernard McCabe, AAT deputy president, said he was not satisfied that Malek Fahd Islamic ...
More »Aranmore’s inclusive principal promotes support for everyone
From catering for students seeking all levels of qualifications to a focus on wellbeing for the entire community, Aranmore Catholic’s principal wants to help everybody succeed. Each school day, between 30 and 50 young people eat at the Breakfast Club ...
More »Collaboration cornerstone of school-in-a-school design: architect
Collaboration was key for Hayball Architects' Lisa Horton’s design for blending together schools. Melbourne’s Dandenong High School is an amalgamation of three existing schools. It has to cater for more than 2100 students. Horton said the successful design was a direct result of a 10-year collaboration ...
More »Schools must listen to children who report abuse: commissioner
No matter how rare child sexual abuse may be, an appropriate response is urgently needed when it does occur, one member of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has stated. Commissioner Helen Milroy, a West Australian psychiatrist for children and adolescents, said: ...
More »A Friends’ legacy: Quakerism and high achieving in Hobart
A guiding document and a lasting tradition inform the experience of children throughout Australia’s only Quaker school. Once a week, all students and staff at The Friends’ School in Hobart experience silence during a replication of the traditional Quaker gathering, ...
More »Risk assessment has its rewards
Schools should routinely examine and re-examine where they are vulnerable to crime and dangerous incidents. “Identifying crime risks is a science and, to some extent, an art.” That’s the message from Leon Harris from Harris Crime Prevention Services, speaking at ...
More »For the records’ sake: good file management
Many files have gone digital for convenience; that makes proper management of them more important than ever. Records managements has become a hot-button issue for schools as more and more data about students is generated and accumulated, often due to ...
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