Tuesday November 18, 2008
Teachers learn to close culture gap
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | ALL 93,000 people who work for the NSW Department of Education will spend up to 10 hours learning about indigenous culture under a new Aboriginal education policy to be launched today.
Friday November 7, 2008
Phantom bus rides cost $100m
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | MORE than $200 million of the State Government school transport subsidy is spent on unused bus rides and providing free bus travel for students who bypass public schools to attend private schools, an analysis of Department of Transport figures shows.
Thursday November 6, 2008
Primary school costs lag, report says
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR |
NSW spends less educating its primary school students than most
other states in Australia, an audit of the Department of Education
has found.
Saturday November 1, 2008
The party is over for those creative fee rises
GERARD NOONAN EDUCATION EDITOR | FOR years, investment outfits such as Macquarie Bank and Babcock & Brown earned a deserved reputation as price gougers, charging huge fees for their creative financial inventions. They're now paying for it big time.
Sunday October 26, 2008
Hooked on books as challenge ends
SARAH PRICE EDUCATION REPORTER | TERREY Hills Public School devoured close to 16,000 books as part of the Premier's Reading Challenge.
Sunday October 19, 2008
Eager readers rewrite the records
SARAH PRICE, EDUCATION REPORTER | RECORD numbers of students have completed the 2008 Premier's Reading Challenge.
Sunday October 12, 2008
Ban 'sexy' ads, say Catholics
SARAH PRICE, EDUCATION REPORTER |
CATHOLIC parishioners are stepping up the fight to ban "sexualised"
advertisements from billboards.
Boys' schools break barriers: single-sex success story
SARAH PRICE, EDUCATION REPORTER |
BOYS will be boys and single-sex schools can help break down
sexism.
Thursday October 2, 2008
Brethren schools net $18m funding
ANNA PATTY, EDUCATION EDITOR | SCHOOLS run by the secretive Exclusive Brethren religious sect receive more than $18 million a year in government funding, including $2 million from NSW taxpayers, new figures show.
Tuesday September 30, 2008
Principal rues loss of honour courses
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | THE principal of the top selective school in the state fears the Higher School Certificate will be dumbed down when distinction courses for elite students are phased out from next year.
Sunday September 28, 2008
Campus tension: uni services are facing the axe
SARAH PRICE, EDUCATION REPORTER | STUDENTS are worried that more services at universities could be lost if changes to voluntary student unionism are not implemented by the end of this year.
Premier reveals his favourite books
SARAH PRICE, EDUCATION REPORTER |
BOOKS by Dr Seuss, Harper Lee and George Orwell are among NSW
Premier Nathan Rees's favourites for children and teenagers.
Saturday September 27, 2008
Digital revolution stalls over funding
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | THE NSW Government has been forced to reject Kevin Rudd's latest offer of funding for school computers because of uncertainty about the extra costs involved.
Wednesday September 24, 2008
Teachers angry at HSC plans
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | PLANS to streamline Higher School Certificate papers and external marking will cut costs and threatens to downgrade courses, teachers have said.
Friday September 19, 2008
Yes, minister, you pay for public schools
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | AFTER just days in her job as the state's Education Minister, Verity Firth was shocked to discover that the State Government provided most of the funding for public schools.
Parents unite to learn the lesson
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | AUSTRALIAN parent groups will explore the boundaries of parental expectations of schools after concerns that some parents become too pushy with teachers.
Thursday September 18, 2008
Pushy parents shown the rulebook
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | "HELICOPTER parents" who hover around private schools pestering teachers have become so annoying that they are being asked to sign behaviour contracts.
Sunday September 14, 2008
A real sizzle for young readers
SARAH PRICE EDUCATION REPORTER |
EAGER readers were rewarded with a sausage sizzle when one school
celebrated its students' Premier's Reading Challenge success with a
barbecue.
Saturday September 13, 2008
NSW tops the first national spelling test
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | NSW students have topped the spelling bee in the first national comparison of literacy and numeracy test results.
Thursday September 11, 2008
Degrees of earning overshadow learning
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | UNIVERSITIES are no longer seen primarily as centres of learning but as corporations most concerned about the bottom line, a survey from a leading Australian university has found.
Wednesday September 10, 2008
Teachers claim victory over staff hiring
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | THE NSW teachers' union has forced the State Government to water down its decision to allow principals to hand-pick the teachers they hire.
Sunday September 7, 2008
Books a joy, thanks to library
SARAH PRICE EDUCATION REPORTER |
A NEW library has helped propel one school to success in its first
attempt at the Premier's Reading Challenge.
Friday September 5, 2008
Career turns full circle for a former leader
ANNA PATTY, EDUCATION EDITOR |
THE former Democrats leader turned Labor MP, Cheryl Kernot, made a
quiet comeback outside politics yesterday, ruling out any return to
the bear pit.
Wednesday September 3, 2008
Unis 'are inflating scores'
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR |
UNIVERSITIES are artificially inflating their entrance scores as a marketing ploy to lift the status of their courses and are then accepting lower-scoring applicants, says the architect of the university entry score system in NSW.
Teachers vote to strike again
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | TENS of thousands of NSW teachers yesterday voted to take further strike action during the HSC period and early next year if the State Government failed to meet salary and staffing demands.
Tuesday September 2, 2008
Private schools wary of cuts
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR |
INDEPENDENT schools would oppose any reduction in funding as a
result of a new Federal Government directive for all schools to
publish their income from student fees, investments and
fund-raising from next year.
Sunday August 31, 2008
Students meeting Premier's reading challenge
SARAH PRICE - EDUCATION REPORTER | STUDENTS at one school are well-versed in their favourite books.
Students jump at chance to stay fit
SARAH PRICE - EDUCATION REPORTER | THE kids from Carlton Public School are jumping their way to good health.
Wednesday August 27, 2008
Funding cuts to cost 1000 teachers: union
ANNA PATTY EDUCATION EDITOR | PUBLIC schools would continue to be stripped of Commonwealth funding under the Rudd Government, with 1000 teaching positions possibly gone by 2012, unless state governments paid the difference, an analysis of the federal budget shows.
Tuesday August 26, 2008
Every poster tells a story: university blues and other tales
HARRIET ALEXANDER HIGHER EDUCATION REPORTER |
THERE are hundreds of stories to be told about student activism at
the University of Sydney since 1937, or there is one: the more
things change, the more they stay the same.
