The head of Ballarat Grammar’s boarding facility and his deputy have stood down from running Dart House,the principal has told staff.
Some 17,559 children will sit the selective school test this week for 4200 places. Ninety per cent of them have been coached.
Teachers for Palestine want schoolchildren taught about Australian soldiers acting as “enforcers of Empire” in post-WWI Egypt.
Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.
Gossip and bullying pile-ons are turning parents’ WhatsApp groups into a battleground,and schools are being urged to fight back.
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.
Parramatta East Public School,like many in the region,has been over its student cap for years,but now new funding will bring its classes out of demountables.
Student Resource Scheme fees generated more than $100 million for state schools last year. But an audit by the Queensland education department found problems.