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Australia: Global village of students, teachers and families unite on blog site

Buldog sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 36, Clicks: 4)
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Some ‘‘really amazing’’ blogging is being done in Victorian schools, and often the best work is being done by younger students, says James Farmer, the former Deakin University education technology lecturer who left academic life in 2005 to establish Edublogs, his blog-hosting website, as a global operation.

2 comments | Tags: australia digital age victoria australia victorian education department edublogs | Topic: Online Learning BAD >_<

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Australia: Education about 'values' not money under Coalition -- Pyne

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 45, Clicks: 4)
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A Coalition government would shift the education debate from a discussion about ''more money'' to one about ''values'', according to education spokesman Christopher Pyne.

0 comments | Tags: australia christopher pyne school reform victoria australia gonski report | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Australia: Butt out of education, Queensland tells PM

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 50, Clicks: 4)
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Queensland has told Julia Gillard to “butt out of education” while revealing it would follow Victoria in hatching its own school funding reform plan. In the latest setback to the Prime Minister's hopes of striking a deal with the states, the Queensland government declared on Thursday the Prime Minister should “give up” on her Gonski school funding reforms.

2 comments | Tags: australia victoria australia school reform school funding queensland australia | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Australia: Victoria throws education reforms into disarray

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 49, Clicks: 5)
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A FURIOUS Gillard government has warned that more than $1 billion in funding for Victorian students has been placed at risk after Premier Ted Baillieu walked away from a national plan to overhaul schools.

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Australia: For-profit schools to cash in

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 38, Clicks: 5)
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Global education companies are planning to open Australia's first for-profit schools targeting local primary and secondary students as early as next year. Fairview Global, a for-profit schools network based in Malaysia, will send scouts to Australia within six months to find potential sites, with the aim of opening two schools next year and in 2015.

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Australia: Year 7 students going backwards at maths

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 82, Clicks: 4)
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Australian year 7 students have got worse at maths since the introduction of national literacy and numeracy tests five years ago, according to the latest national snapshot. And 14 Victorian schools breached national protocols when conducting this year's NAPLAN tests, including giving a class excess time, making test materials available to students before the test and granting a disability adjustment that was not entitled, a separate report says.

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Australia: Results flatline for top students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 33, Clicks: 4)
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A major Victorian study into how teachers use test data to help children learn has revealed that while struggling students clocked up huge improvements after six months, the performances of top students stagnated.

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Australia: Substance in the education rhetoric

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 68, Clicks: 4)
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Editorial -- Education Minister Martin Dixon has released a position paper that adds substance to the Baillieu government's commitment to lift the performance of Victoria's students into the global top tier in the next 10 years. But the public and profession are entitled to ask whether this is empty rhetoric in the absence of a plan or whether there is a realistic possibility that the target can be achieved.

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Australia: Teachers desert state schools for private

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 76, Clicks: 4)
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Victorian teachers are increasingly deserting public schools to work in the private system, renewing fears about future staff shortages. New research shows that while demand for teachers will continue to grow as enrollments boom, fewer staff are working in public schools compared with 10 years ago, while more have turned to the independent system.

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Australia: Teachers' strike felt across city

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 87, Clicks: 4)
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Hundreds of students spent the day at home as teachers from state schools across Melbourne's east took part in stop work action this morning.

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Australia looks towards virtual classrooms

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.stuff.co.nz (Views: 112, Clicks: 4)
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The Victoria state government will resort to using "virtual classrooms" - where multiple schools share the same teacher over the internet - as it may not have enough qualified staff to fulfil its promise to teach every child a second language.

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Australia: Principal cleared, but anger bubbles

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 98, Clicks: 4)
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Supporters of sacked Methodist Ladies College principal Rosa Storelli are angry she will not be reinstated despite the board acknowledging she was not responsible for accounting errors that led to her being overpaid.

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Australia: Angry teachers pledge to continue striking

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 113, Clicks: 4)
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Victorian state schools will face further disruption next term with teachers to hold staggered half-day strikes starting in Premier Ted Baillieu's electorate of Hawthorn.

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Australia: Government set to slash 950 education jobs

Buldog sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 97, Clicks: 4)
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The Baillieu government will axe up to 950 Education Department jobs, the union covering public sector workers says, and not the 400 cuts outlined by the Premier in June. Hundreds of Education Department bureaucrats were invited by managers to attend a meeting yesterday for a briefing on a restructure first flagged last December - and still not completed.

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Australia: Admin workers to join striking teachers

MrGreen sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 146, Clicks: 4)
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Victorian public education support staff have voted to join teachers and principals in a historic statewide strike.

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