Tag: Schools
Islamic school stung by 'military camp' reports
A Brisbane Islamic school has rejected reports it is run like a paramilitary camp and that it tried to ban the singing of the Australian national anthem.[MORE]
4 'preppies' bash older student
Four prep students from the Heidelberg Primary School in Melbourne have been suspended for bashing an older senior student.[MORE]
Principals reject religious education claims
The Queensland Association of State School Principals (QASSP) has rejected claims prep students were being taught about religion by reading a children's book about an ark.[MORE]
One-student outback school fears closure
A tiny town in outback Queensland says its school should stay open, even if only two or three students are attending.[MORE]
Union fears loss of school psychologists
The Education Union in Tasmania is angered by what it says is slow progress on pay and career issues relating to school psychologists.[MORE]
British teacher suspended over push-up punishment
A British schoolteacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class, Britain's main teaching union.[MORE]
Protesters paint bleak future for TAFE
The South Australian Government has been accused of working by stealth to privatise the state's TAFE college system.[MORE]
School leaver sparks Meningococcal alert
School leavers who celebrated in Dunsborough last week are being advised to monitor their health, after a female student contracted meningococcal disease.[MORE]
Education bill stand-off continues
There is still no breakthrough over $28 billion of funding for independent schools.[MORE]
Qld Govt slams 'tasteless' red pen debate
The Queensland Government says a parliamentary debate about banning red pens is tasteless and trivial.[MORE]
'Oppn threatening funding', Gillard warns schools
The Government has written to every independent school in the country warning them their funding is under threat.[MORE]
TAFE pay offer below schools offer
TAFE staff get a 13pc pay rise offer, less than SA public teachers have been offered.[MORE]
Govt a 'bully-boy' on private school funding bill: Fielding
Family First Senator Steve Fielding says the Government is being a "bully" over its private school funding bill.[MORE]
Catholic school teachers to stop work
Teachers at up to 600 Catholic schools around New South Wales will hold stop work meetings on Tuesday in support of a 5 per cent pay rise claim.[MORE]
$800m school computers funding 'reflects Govt mismanagement'
The role of Federal Government funding in education has dominated a rowdy day in Parliament.[MORE]
School performance rules to start next year: Gillard
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says parents will know much more about their children's schools from next year.[MORE]
Oppn to block $28b school funding bill
The Opposition is threatening to block parts of the Government's $28 billion school funding bill.[MORE]
Gillard denies school computers cost blow-out
The Federal Government has denied it has mismanaged its computers in schools program.[MORE]
Students to get laptops next year
The New South Wales Government says it will begin rolling out laptop computers for every public school student from years nine to 12 from next year.[MORE]
Govt defends computer funding boost
The Federal Government has defended almost doubling the money it is spending on its computers in schools program.[MORE]
COAG schools spending welcome but not enough: union
The Queensland Teachers Union has described the move to spend more than $45 billion on education over the next four years as too little, too late.[MORE]
ACT handed $15m for computers in schools roll out
The ACT has been handed an extra $15 million to help it roll out the Federal Government's computers in schools program.[MORE]
Scrymgour not 'pussy footing' on bilingual schools
Marion Scrymgour has defended her decision to scrap the bilingual program in NT schools.[MORE]
$800k sweetener lures NSW back to school computer program
The Federal Government's decision to lift funding for school computers by $800,000 has lured NSW back into the program.[MORE]
Surplus raided for computers in schools: Opposition
The Federal Opposition says the Government has raided the surplus to fund its promise to put more computers in schools.[MORE]
