Funding for Victorian private school pupils has grown at a faster rate than their public counterparts over the past decade,a new report shows.
Federal and state money going to NSW non-government schools grew by 27.2 per cent over the 10 years to 2021.
Independent MP Dai Le says the government needs to attract more workers to the early childhood education sector.
North Sydney Council plans to ask principals at Shore School,Loreto Kirribilli,Wenona,St Aloysius’ College and Redlands to share their facilities.
A Sydney council wants to create safe walking routes to school,but fear overprotective parents,busy roads and heavy school bags stand in the way of change.
“There is a culture that has developed around selective schools;they are the ultimate prize for many families,” says one education expert.
School refusal is complex and each child’s reasons are different. My experience only makes sense to me decades later.
Some of Sydney’s non-selective boys’ public schools are sitting half-empty. It’s a situation parents believe will only get worse.
Blue-ribbon racquet racket.
The vice chancellor of Canberra’s Australian National University,Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt,will vacate the prestigious position at the end of the year.
At least 160 high schools across NSW are now forcing students to lock their phones away in individual pouches during school hours.
By the time you state schoolers are in year 9,many of you will be five years behind the kids in Posh Grammar in reading,and four years behind in maths – more than double the gap between you and them in year 3. The more you’re schooled,the relatively dumber you get!
I once believed you should choose the right school for your own child. Instead,we should be fighting for a school system insisting on equity,not entrenching privilege.
A last-minute tweak to the revamp of Fort Street Public School in Sydney’s Millers Point has angered residents and heritage advocates.
China’s move to no longer recognise the qualifications of students who study remotely has sparked fears of a housing shortfall as Sydney grapples with rising rents.
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says student-led learning has let down disadvantaged children who are being left behind on reading and writing.
Four schools affiliated with an ultra-conservative Catholic group face claims of preaching hardline religious views on sexuality,such as chastity and masturbation.
Better access to early childhood education is one of the government’s core policies,but the sector worries it will just increase demand when it is already struggling to cope.
A Grattan Institute report has called for the investment of $1 billion in group tutoring for students whose disadvantage has become more pronounced every year of their schooling.
NSW Labor has promised to make school-based tutors permanent and end the “underfunding” of public schools.
The Chinese Ministry for Education has released a “special announcement” confirming it would only acknowledge degrees awarded to students attending in-person classes.
An institution for Sydney students trading in their second-hand textbooks will soon close as schools increasingly turn online for learning materials.
Demand for scholarship spots at Sydney’s private schools is rising,with at least 20 institutions offering places in year 4 and 5 in a bid to lock in high achievers before they reach high school.
Almost 65,000 kindergarten students will start at NSW public schools this week,learning a new curriculum that focuses on phonics to learn to read.
It is surprising and deeply disappointing that the NSW Education Department has still not made any changes to the way it teaches consent in the state’s public schools.
The Teach Us Consent petition,launched by Chanel Contos,called for NSW schools to include lessons on rape culture,sexual coercion,toxic masculinity,victim blaming and queer sex.
NSW’s education authority is investigating Sydney schools linked to Opus Dei after allegations the schools deviated from the state curriculum.
More than 9000 aspiring teachers have been deterred from entering the profession because of the requirement to undertake a two-year master’s teaching degree,a NSW Productivity Commission report says.
Sydney is the most costly city in Australia for private education,with extras like laptops,musical instruments and uniforms adding up to more than $5000.
Amanda DeLuca is not your typical private school mum. But like thousands of parents she thinks it is worth the money,even amid fee increases of up to 5 per cent this year.
Public schools have banned AI program ChatGPT,but private educators say they will allow it as they can tell students’ work apart. Can you? Test yourself in this article.
So impossible will it be in the artificial intelligence future for any teacher to determine the integrity of any student’s learning when not in their direct supervision,that the very formula for educating them will be forced to change. The entire model of schooling may be flipped on its head.
Four years after the then-Coalition government signed a funding agreement,the Productivity Commission has found reading and numeracy results have deteriorated.
It says so in the iBible.
A leaked report from 2020 found bullying,high turnover and under-resourcing were plaguing the national health regulator. Staff say nothing has changed.
Educators looking to weed out plagiarism among students face an impossibly difficult new technological challenge.
Motorists take the plunge.
Education experts say more male teachers are needed to help both boys and girls be less likely to have stereotypical views about traditional gender roles.
A state government initiative to train swimming teachers was deemed too difficult to implement by many pools,as schools struggle to find instructors.
A private school education could benefit some students,but the pay-off is up for debate according to experts.
Twenty private schools have received more than $340 million in donations in recent years as schools ramp up fundraising drives amid a building boom.
More than 43,000 early entry offers were made to pupils before they sat their HSC exams last year,and new rules to delay them haven’t satisfied school principals.
For many,the beach holiday was a joy of childhood,For this landlubber,it’s been a slow burn.
Independent schools across the city are raising fees for 2023,with Kambala and SCEGGS Darlinghurst set to charge parents more than $45,000 for year 12.
Student visa applications were 40 per cent higher in the second half of 2022 than during the same period in 2019,figures show.
However,students Jessica Wei,Shaun Patrick and Lauren Zhang from Redlands School were pleased with their university ranks of 99.75 or higher.
Two Sydney private schools had four students who achieved the perfect score of 45 out of 45.
The appointments include a member who speaks Mandarin,a former French army officer and a BBC TV host.
St Ignatius’ College Riverview had let local residents wander around its grounds for decades,but has now decided to close during term time.
Parents in coastal towns have been told rapid population growth means that school catchment zones will soon change.