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Private schools overpaid grants after exaggerating student numbers, audit shows
Some private schools received $1.4m more than they were entitled to last year by overstating their student numbers, an audit shows.
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Commission set to probe corruption in education department
A hearing is about to be launched into allegations of serious corruption in the education sector.
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Govt slams education union’s “disgraceful campaign of lies”
Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, has rejected the education union’s claim of a crisis in student disability funding.
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School faces legal action for trying to discipline misbehaving students
A school is facing legal action after trying to send home two students who deliberately breached airport security during a school trip.
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Private school fees turning parents away
High fees are causing parents to send their kids to public rather than private schools in increasing numbers.
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Eighty per cent of principals facing “urgent crisis”
Principals are struggling to find funding for more than 100,000 students in need of urgent disability support.
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Reports of child abuse at another top boys’ school
Yet another elite boys’ school is in the spotlight following allegations of child sex abuse.
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Principals expand horizons with revolutionary program
The rapid growth of a global peer-shadowing program is taking principals’ professional networking opportunities to a new level.
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Private schools may lose privileged exemptions
The NSW Parliament will soon consider legislation that may remove private school exemptions to the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act.
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Teaching is an honourable profession - let’s treat it like one
“You can’t have a doctor who only cares about people — they have to have a deep knowledge of medicine, and it’s the same with teaching,” says Geoff Masters.
