The vocational major VCE has breathed new life into vocational education and training in Victorian schools,but there are calls for the government to do more.
Some 17,559 children will sit the selective school test this week for 4200 places. Ninety per cent of them have been coached.
Single-sex schools are weird. A relic. A social experiment that makes no sense in the modern world. But if I had my time over again I’d send my kids to one,and they would all choose the same too.
The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.
The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.
Two determined principals dramatically turned around the culture of a school where student and educators’ physical and mental health,plus academic records,had been plummeting.
The $260 million pledge to build 12 technical colleges for high school students is a move towards teaching skills rather than pushing students into university.
The report published on Tuesday found web pages that inadvertently published sample cover pages containing exam content had been viewed thousands of times.
Almost 30 per cent of year 7 students are not meeting proficiency standards in reading. The NSW government plans to spend $80 million a year on a program to fix it.
Victoria’s trial for putting monitoring devices on underage offenders is due to start this month,but where the teens will be sent is among the unanswered questions.