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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.
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Hot List nominations: a reminder to vote!
Time is running out to cast your vote in The Educator’s Hot List, with nominations closing this coming Friday, 27 March.
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“We've had enough”: Independent schools poised to strike
The union representing independent schools has announced it will strike on 28 April unless its ongoing dispute with the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations (CCER) is resolved by the weekend.
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Parents can add “greater value” to homework
If students are to reap greater value from homework, parents must be involved, says a leading voice in education.
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Religious schools win right to reject non-believers
An amendment to the Anti-Discrimination Act has given faith-based schools the right to reject students whose families do not share their faith.
