Education
How an algorithm could curb the spread of COVID-19 through schools
A Melbourne software program for organising primary school classes is being used by American schools to curb the spread of COVID-19 among their students.
- by Adam Carey
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Education
Qld Education Minister derides LNP's 'lacklustre' plan to hire more teachers
Grace Grace says the plan – announced on Saturday – for an extra 3350 teachers and 760 aides falls short of Labor's promises.
- by Jocelyn Garcia
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Crime
More elite Sydney schools drawn into 'criminal' muck-up day fiasco
St Aloysius' College and other schools in northern Sydney have become embroiled in a controversy triggered by Shore School year 12s.
- by Fergus Hunter and Amelia McGuire
IBAC
IBAC files 55 charges over alleged education training scam
The state's anti-corruption watchdog has charged four people with 55 offences following an investigation into an alleged rort involving dodgy TAFE qualifications and training within Victoria's education and transport sectors.
- by Erin Pearson
Education
Families in limbo over suspension of school entry exams
Thousands of high-achieving year 8 students still have no idea whether they will be accepted into Victoria's select-entry schools.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Opinion
Education
Shore challenges won't earn you entry to adult world
Is it bad that I am not surprised when I read the Triwizard Shornament challenge book? Is it even worse that I understand it?
- by Brandon Jack
School strike for climate
Last year 80,000 students marched for the climate. In COVID-19, they're trying something different
More than 500 individual events are planned, ranging from a live-streamed Q&A and Instagram concert to socially distanced protests.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Crime
'This is not who we are': Shore blames small group of boys for muck-up day rampage plans
The headmaster wrote to parents on Wednesday after the emergence of plans for assaults, trespassing and drug-taking.
- by Fergus Hunter
Opinion
Parenting
Parents are responsible for crime-filled muck-up day
This is a group of kids whose moral compass is seriously off.
- by Kerri Sackville
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Vocational training
'How is this possible?': The pensioner saddled with a $75,000 tax debt
David Reeves was duped into an expensive student loan - and the time for victims to have such loans cancelled is running out.
- by Anna Patty
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Crime
'Spit on homeless man': Shore School year 12s plan crime-filled muck-up day
Police have been alerted to student plans for a muck up day activity that would include assaults, trespassing, drug-taking and other illegal activities.
- by Fergus Hunter