All sides of politics need to be on the same page when it comes to tackling Australia’s severe skills shortage.
The NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has accused the teachers’ union of being “hell-bent” on hanging students out to dry for political purposes.
Labor’s promise of extra funding for university and TAFE courses is a good proposal but broader reform of the higher education system is needed.
Buses in Sydney’s south-west and 75 per cent of trains across the network are expected to be impacted by strike action on Tuesday,while teachers will rally outside NSW Parliament.
A non-government school with two campuses in south-east Queensland underpaid staff for more than eight years.
The eastern suburbs boys’ school has taken another step towards becoming co-educational in years 11 and 12.
Australian families spend more as a share of their income on early childhood services than almost anyone else in the world,but we are ranked sixth-last in developed countries for how well we support our children.
The teachers’ claims are of relevance to all of us.
Some parents and associations say it’s time for teachers to receive better pay and conditions for their efforts,but others do not want any further disruption to students.
There are so many problems with religious schools hiring and firing based on a statement of values.
As the NSW teachers’ strike looms next week,the union is using the same tactics that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of Sydney in the 1980s.
Despite years imagining finishing the HSC,Year 12 student Kim Ponluskanapimol says he could not predict how his final year would end up.
Despite all the worry about the pandemic derailing the 2021 HSC,just 27 students missed exams because they were self-isolating.
35 years ago,angry students from Abbotsford Public began a campaign to end the vandalism inflicted upon their school.
The institution will try to reinvigorate campus life while still catering to students stuck overseas due to travel bans.
Nepali student Aashish Thakur was ready to get on plane to complete his Masters in Information Systems degree in Australia. And then the ‘inevitable’ happened.
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission has ordered teachers to call off their strike but their federation says it will go ahead.
Forcing Catholic schools to employ staff that don’t support the ethos and values of the school or,at worst,seek to undermine them,is akin to asking the Greens to welcome climate deniers among their membership,or the ACTU to open their arms to neo-liberalist stalwarts.
The United Workers Union is accusing childhood education giants of ripping off employees and taxpayers by taking huge executive bonuses,paying staff too little and using offshore havens to minimise tax bills.
I am keenly aware that the teachers’ strike means parents having to keep their children home for yet another day,after so many,many days. But teachers are stressed to the max and they need something to give.
Departing UNSW vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs says the demise of the lecture will allow universities to use old spaces in different ways to reignite campus life.
The NSW Teachers Federation has voted to take a full day of industrial action as a pay dispute with the state government escalates.
Having demanded that we deal with sexual assault differently,Grace Tame and Chanel Contos discuss the power – and pain – of asking uncomfortable questions.
The NSW Teachers Federation will vote today on a recommendation to direct all members to strike and attend a rally on December 7,their first strike in almost 10 years.
Sixty senior faculty members have opposed a plan to replace arts and social sciences departments with ‘disciplines’.
A Christian school fired me because of my belief that a person can be a Christian and be gay. But I’m not aware that the school ever dismissed staff members on account of other “sins”.
Principals,parents and academics warn gifted and talented students won’t get the help they need if an expert advisory group is dismantled.
Unvaccinated teenagers in NSW have been granted an exemption to attend end-of-year celebrations.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is giving almost $250 million to four universities to help commercialise innovative technology.
Some say the bill will licence discrimination against gay teachers and students,but religious schools say it provides a clear framework allowing them to hire staff of their own faith.
Rest breaks for students with anxiety,pain or concentration issues were by far the most common disability provision in last year’s HSC.
Dulwich Hill drama teacher Hal Leggett said the cancelled group performance was typically considered the “heart and soul” of the drama course. “It was difficult and disappointing for all of them,” he said.
The high cost of providing disability provisions,including up to a third of students at wealthy schools,is covered by the NSW Education Standards Authority.
The first wave of skilled workers and international students will be allowed into the country when border restrictions on several types of visa holders lift in a week.
Anecdotal reports say tutoring has improved student engagement but an official evaluation has not yet been released.
Fully selective schools are offering up to nine accelerated HSC courses - where students can sit part of their HSC in year 10 or 11.
Universities are meant to be the domain of free speech,but they are struggling to wrestle with identity politics and the gender-critical feminism debate.
Teaching salary levels send the wrong signal to young people considering a career in education.
The NSW government will reassess the need for close contacts of COVID-19 cases to isolate when senior ministers meet next week,with Premier Dominic Perrottet signalling the state would reconsider school closures and strict isolation rules for students.
NSW universities are hopeful of rebuilding student numbers by 2024 but need a broader base of revenue.
It’s the most challenging question in the hardest maths exam,which can stump even the most capable of students. Could you solve it?
Parents must administer the tests to students every day during the second week of exposure and log the results on an app.
Under Sydney Catholic Schools’ new music program,every year 3 to 8 eight student will learn to play an instrument during school time.
Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge said the right was under threat by Victoria’s push to prohibit religious schools from sacking staff based on their sexual orientation.
In an email to parents on Tuesday night,Bondi Public School said about 250 students have been required to isolate,after confirming the first positive case in a “member of the school community”.
The NSW Department of Education is gauging what information and resources families want so they can discuss sensitive issues like sex,consent and peer pressure with their children at home.
New foreign interference guidelines will instead give universities the final say on which staff must disclose their connections to foreign governments and their overseas financial links.
At some schools,more than two-thirds of the staff are temporary or casual. At others,it’s less than 20 per cent.
President of the Mathematical Association of NSW,Karen McDaid,said teachers’ main issue was around the wordiness of some questions.
The outdoor education industry and music teachers are struggling for financial survival because the NSW Department of Education will not allow public school students to attend overnight camps or play woodwind instruments.