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NSW Teachers Federation in talks on new principal salaries classification scheme
The New South Wales Teachers Federation has started negotiations with the Department of Education around the implementation of a new principal classification structure for 2016.
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New education minister, childcare returns to portfolio
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet reshuffle has replaced Christopher Pyne as education minister while childcare has returned to the education portfolio.
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Funding gap fails students with disabilities
The Australian Education Union has told a Senate inquiry that a lack of funding for students with disabilities is leaving them with a disadvantage.
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Education Council meeting agrees to reform measures
The third meeting this year of the Education Council has agreed to a number of significant education reforms.
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NZ teacher not disciplined despite taping student to a chair
A teacher in Christchurch has escaped discipline from the Education Council despite taping a boy to a chair ‘as a joke’.
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Teacher’s over-zealous security ‘owned’ by President Obama
The actions of a teacher who believed a student’s invention could be a bomb has drawn the attention of President Obama.
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Portable classrooms on the move as Melbourne’s suburbs swell
Victoria’s schools are facing the biggest move of mobile classrooms ever as schools in Melbourne face space crisis.
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New York mayor kicks off door knocking push to get school kids’ parents involved
With the second full school year of his administration having just commenced, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is feeling the pressure to improve a number of troubled schools, which are among a group of 62 low-performing schools targeted for a potential takeover by the state.
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VCOSS chief welcomes equity funding for disadvantaged students
A peak Victorian welfare body has hailed the state government’s $566 million education funding which aims to “break the cycle of disadvantage”.
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Parents accused of completing students’ assignments
Australia’s largest authority says that some students are at an advantage in school assignments as parents or tutors are completing them.
