Total school enrolments across Australia have reached a record high as a result of the increased number of full-fee paying overseas students. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), total school enrolments reached a record high of 4,086,998 across 9629 ...
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Five girls aged 14 to 16 years old, from an elite private school have been arrested and detained for hours in Singapore after they allegedly shoplifted from multiple stores while on a school trip. Year 10 students from elite Victorian school Bacchus Marsh Grammar travelled ...
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ABC Chief Economics Correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous for her supposed anti-Liberal bias, she provoked the opposite kind of ire by asking the internet for their “… stories about ...
More »Private school-educated scholars attack ‘old boys and girls clubs’
Most future wealth – at least in Western nations – will be inherited. But billionaires still put their children in the best position to grow their fortunes, by enrolling them in private or elite public schools. Bill Gates sent his ...
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