Education
Early uni offers to target students disadvantaged by COVID-19
Universities are for the first time offering students early entry based on their year 11 work from this year.
- by Anna Patty
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Education
Catholic school systems to face more funding transparency
Non-government school authorities will be forced to provide more information about how they distribute public funding between their schools.
- by Fergus Hunter
Education
Just one in five students learning media literacy, as news consumption rises
New research shows 88 per cent of young Australians were consuming news this year, propelled by the Australian bushfire season and coronavirus pandemic.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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University
Students to study COVID-19 in real-time with new uni course
Science graduates will be trained to fight both today's pandemic and any future outbreaks with a new short course.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Pacific diplomacy
'Australia welcomes you': Business, universities launch China damage control campaign
The campaign is a sign of how seriously local interests are taking the risk to Australia's image in China posed by tensions over the coronavirus, geopolitics and racism.
- by Michael Koziol
Teaching
Will curriculum reform take students back to basics, or prepare them for the future?
Reactions to the NSW curriculum review have been divided, but all agree the hard part will be making it work.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Opinion
An idea we should import from the UK to help students catch up
The Morrison government will be spending billions of dollars over the next 6-to-12 months to kick-start the economy. A small fraction of that new federal spending – less than 1 per cent – should be spent on tutoring in schools.
- by Julie Sonnemann
Schools
New progress check for years 5, 9 hailed as 'enlightened' test
In the absence of NAPLAN, schools can now choose whether their year 5 and 9 students will sit an online test to check their progress.
- by Jordan Baker
University
From Rhodes to Ramsay: Western Civilisation centre offers lucrative scholarships
The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation is offering Rhodes-style scholarships for postgraduate students to study overseas
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Opinion
Schools interrupted, have learnt valuable lessons
The last 12 weeks have seen the most significant disruption to our education system in living memory. We can't go back to business as usual.
- by Marise McConaghy
Education
From the Archives: Call for computers in high schools
Forty years ago, high school principals called for the provision of computers for every high school in Australia. It paved the way for the use of technology in education that has continued unabated.
- by Christopher Henning
Opinion
Opinion
Some of our brightest still slipping under the radar
Graduate teachers are still walking into classrooms with little to no training in gifted education, and are rarely receiving support or guidance from above.
- by Brooke Lumsden
Schools
Growth in money for private school students outstrips public schools
Income for each NSW public school student increased by $583 between 2009 and 2018, compared with $2520 per student at independent schools.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos and Adam Carey
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Regional Australia
Nationals issue warning on government's university funding overhaul
Frontbencher Andrew Gee says the junior Coalition partner will only support the proposed shake-up after addressing any concerns held by regional universities.
- by Fergus Hunter
Letters
Opinion
If universities are to be truly valued, they must be properly funded
Our public universities need to be treasured. That means a rethink on how they are managed and funded.
Education
Universities grapple with new ways to test students to combat cheating
About eight per cent of students admitted to taking an exam for someone else and 4.2 per cent admitted someone else had done their exam.
- by Anna Patty
Opinion
Opinion
Making sense of the government's war on arts degrees
Humanities graduates have been forced into an existential reckoning about our relative uselessness in a national crisis.
- by Julie Szego
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Private schools
Cate was expelled in year 2. Her parents took the school to court
First Cate was suspended, then banned from the school bus.
- by Jordan Baker
Private schools
Dance, netball and gender bias training: How a boys' school prepares for girls
The newly co-ed Marist Catholic College in North Sydney is putting staff and boys through gender bias training.
- by Jordan Baker
Coronavirus pandemic
'Tumultuous': The seismic change hidden in Tehan's plans for unis
If the government's changes pass, students will pay a greater proportion of the domestic teaching bill than the Commonwealth for the first time in decades.
- by Jordan Baker
University
Readers debate government's changes to university fees
'The overhaul of university funding is really significant ... I think the comments speak to how passionate people are about Australia's education system.'
- by Aimie Rigas
Education
Two thousand UTS students have online exams interrupted due to outage
Eighteen exams scheduled across two sessions were interrupted when the university's Blackboard platform experienced a major outage.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
ANU
Lack of higher education vision will 'kill' universities, says vice-chancellor
Universities say the federal government needs to act quickly on research, as important, long-term projects may be cut because they can no longer afford them.
- by Jordan Baker and Fergus Hunter
Opinion
Opinion
Cultural cringe + market economics = lower education
The government wants to turn universities into factories turning out future workers, but can we trust it to know where the jobs will be? And while we're at it, do we settle for importing our culture?
- by Thomas Keneally
Opinion
Opinion
University fee changes prepare us for post-COVID opportunities
If we are to carve our own future, we will need to pivot to new market opportunities as the reliance on our resources shifts in the new energy order.
- by Katie Allen
Education
Camden High School the second to close this week due to COVID-19 case
Camden High School is the second Sydney school to close over COVID-19 cases in two days, after Lane Cove West Public School was closed on Thursday.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Education
Cutting school electives 'an entry point' to decluttering curriculum
The government has vowed to cut 20 per cent of high school electives, but some subjects to be slashed have not been studied for years or have just a handful of enrolments.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Health
Authorities expect more COVID cases in Sydney after positive test of student
The death of a Bankstown man has been reclassified as a COVID-19 death, bringing the Australian toll to 104.
- by Kate Aubusson and Lisa Visentin
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Research
Tehan to convene vice-chancellor group to replace broken research funding system
The Education Minister will bring together the high-powered group to overhaul a model that has relied on subsidisation from students.
- by Fergus Hunter and Jordan Baker
Education
Year 2 Sydney student tests positive to COVID-19, school closed
A note on Lane Cove West Public School's website on Wednesday night said the school was "temporarily non-operational".
- by Jamie Berry
Life in Lockdown
Public school students 2.5 times more likely to be without home internet
Five per cent of public school students would have been without home internet access during the pandemic, compared to 2 per cent of Catholic and independent school students.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Opinion
Steve Jobs
'Not quite what we expected': Ramsay Centre now a lifeboat for humanities going under
Our message has never been more relevant: we devalue and defund the arts at our peril.
- by Simon Haines
Private schools
Financial controller of Moriah College spent stolen millions on poker machines, court told
Augustine Robert Nosti agreed in court on Tuesday that he misappropriated $7 million from the school. He said 'the majority' was used for gambling on poker machines.
- by Georgina Mitchell
Opinion
Opinion
The attack on the humanities will harm future generations
Disciplines such as social science, culture, philosophy, politics and economics were irrelevant to the builders of communism, and now it seems they are superfluous to the builders of the digital post-modernity.
- by Lena Redman
Coronavirus pandemic
Tehan tells concerned school leavers that uni fee shake-up is fair
The university fee overhaul has triggered concerns for school students who have picked subjects based on degrees they have committed to.
- by Fergus Hunter and Jordan Baker
Opinion
University Of Sydney
I am eternally grateful for my humble arts degree
The Morrison government does down the contribution of arts grads at its peril.
- by Peter FitzSimons
University of New South Wales
'Perverse incentive' for universities to use humanities as cash cows
The federal government's push to train more scientists and engineers will actually lead some universities to instead enrol more high-fee paying humanities students, a leading vice-chancellor says.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Sydney
A special Sydney place reminds us that history matters
Even on a cave wall in Sydney's west, history is contested, yet the government is telling students it's not as important as more 'job-ready' pursuits.
- by Anna Clark
Opinion
Dominic Perrottet
Unlock super to pay off student debt
Students, debt holders and government coffers alike will benefit.
- by Lyndon Gannon
Letters
Opinion
Uni fee overhaul connotes shallow view of education
Our universities need to produce a skilled workforce but not at the expense of new ideas, informed debate and cultural enrichment.
Teaching
Practice exams, tutorials on new online HSC hub
Extra HSC resources will be given to year 12 to help them overcome the disruption of COVID-19.
- by Jordan Baker
Ken Wyatt
Wyatt eyes deal on schools to lift Indigenous Australians out of disadvantage
The federal government is close to a deal with the states to lift classroom performance by acting on shocking attrition rates that have seen young children leave school years too early.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
STEM
It doesn't add up: uni funding overhaul will also hurt STEM students
A new fee structure will hit arts students, but the overall proportion of federal funding for universities will decline and it will also hurt science, technology, engineering and mathematics students - the ones it is supposedly designed to help.
- by Gareth Bryant
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Schools
Public schools should offer International Baccalaureate, says report
But education leaders say the HSC makes available just as much flexibility and opportunity for critical thinking.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Opinion
Why we need humanities graduates in our workforce
The study of, say, Australia’s history or that of our foes and allies and the politics and cultures of India and China is vital to our future.
- by Joy Damousi
Indigenous
How Indigenous history is taught in NSW schools
Insufficient teacher knowledge and discomfort about confronting content can mean students graduate with gaps in their knowledge.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Opinion
Opinion
Back to the human business of face-to-face schooling
Video conferencing platforms do a fair job of approximating aspects of these relationships. But none are as natural or powerful as being in a classroom.
- by Guido Piotti
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University
Uni fee hikes another blow for class of 2020
For the students graduating in 2020, the news follows the stressors of a summer of bushfires; COVID-19 lockdowns; and a reframing of the future.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Opinion
Don’t rob Peter to pay for Paul on uni places
The government is right to tackle the jobs crisis with increased university funding for courses that have strong job prospects, but it is wrong to target humanities.
- by The Herald's View
Opinion
Dan Tehan
Proposed overhaul of university fees nothing short of radical
Liberal arts graduates are taught to question power and democracy. It's tempting to see this move as a step towards cultivating compliant, "quiet Australians" instead.
- by Tim Soutphommasane