The federal government is offering million dollar grants to fund upgrades to remote school boarding facilities, but the principal of an Alice Springs school has questioned whether or not it’s enough. Until August 9, funding of up to $10m per project ...
More »“Consider the whole picture:” Research shows social media can be positive for tweens
Researchers from the University of South Australia are reminding communities of some of the benefits of children's access to social media as governments consider raising the legal age of social media access to 16-years-old. The study, which its in its ...
More »Retired teachers to be rehired in Qld’s eight-point school crisis plan
Rehiring retired teachers, incentives for regional schools, and taking aim at administration workloads are all part of the eight-point plan to ease the teacher workforce crisis after Queensland’s education experts held a schools summit on Tuesday. The key stakeholders included Education Minister Di Farmer, the ...
More »$28,000 up for grabs for teachers hired in hard-to-staff schools
A NSW recruitment program that offers bonuses of up to $28,000 to teachers, among other benefits, has been expanded to 111 schools from the previous 85 amid increasing concerns from teachers and principals about workforce shortages. Schools with 'significant teacher ...
More »The key education efforts in Victoria’s budget
Part-time principals, international recruitment of teachers, and $400 for state school parents make up the key education measures of the Victorian state budget released on Tuesday. Premier Jacinta Allan's first budget's focus is on helping families, with a heavy focus on ...
More »Whole language should be banned: Grattan Institute
One-third of Australian children can't read this sentence. The Grattan Institute says that fact is a preventable tragedy that will cost Australia $40bn over those students' lifetimes. All schools should use a 'structured literacy' approach to teach reading with a ...
More »Explicit teaching push continues in new behaviour curriculum
Australian students will be taught old-school discipline – including how to line up, keep quiet and be still – in a bid to rid classrooms of the behaviour crisis that sees teachers routinely abused, attacked and children disrupted. The new model of school discipline will ...
More »Student wellbeing opinion: Holistic education key to healthy students
It's well established that adolescence is a time of angst. Young people have the awareness to understand the challenges in the world around them (and, often, a capacity to imagine the worst), but do not yet have the experience or ...
More »Public school enrolments down, NSW funding cut
NSW public school enrolments have dropped by more than 24,000 since the Covid-19 pandemic, as families opt to send their kids to non-government schools. New figures released last Tuesday show a year-on-year fall in government school enrolments for the fourth consecutive year in NSW. ...
More »Deputy and assistant principals to return to teaching
More than 4000 NSW teachers who left the classroom to take administrative roles such as assistant and deputy principal will have to return to the classroom. In one of the Minns government’s most significant school overhauls, the Coalition's Local Schools, ...
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