The New South Wales (NSW) back-to-school plan will be centred on rapid antigen testing (RAT) to ensure that classrooms stay open under the state government’s COVID-Smart Plan. Every student and teacher in the state’s 3,150 government and non-government schools will be eligible to receive RATs before the school year begins on Feb. 1. Over 12…
Australian State Rolls out 12 Million RATs to Ensure Get Kids Back to School
NSW Govt Committed to Getting Students Back to School on Day 1
January 18, 2022
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New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet said the millions of rapid antigen tests (RATs) arriving over the week will be crucial to ensuring schools open the first day of the term. “It is incredibly important to get schools back on day one,” Perrottet told reporters on Tuesday. “That is the commitment of this government…
‘Schools Should Be the Last to Close and the First to Open’: Australian Expert
January 10, 2022
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Australia’s former deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth said no state should delay the return to school to wait for higher vaccination rates of children aged 5 to 11. “Every government and medical expert in this country needs to follow the lead of the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which both…
Australian Boys Are Falling Behind in School NAPLAN Results Reveal
Boys are falling behind girls in every category of literacy and numeracy at every school level, according to the 2021 NAPLAN results. The worst performing category overall was in Year 9 writing, with one-in-five boys (23.4 percent) failing to meet the minimum national standards (band 6), compared to the one-in-ten of girls (11.9 percent). More girls…
Tens of Thousands of Australian Teachers Strike for Better Workloads and Salaries
Public school teachers and principals in New South Wales (NSW) have walked off the job for 24 hours over workloads and salaries and the staff shortages they result in. According to the NSW Teachers Federation figures, more than 15,000 teachers gathered at Sydney’s Hyde Park and marched towards the state parliament house on Macquarie Street….
Australian Labor Party Election Promise: 465,000 Free TAFE Places, 20,000 More University Places
Australian Labor Party Leader Anthony Albanese announced on Dec. 5 that Australians studying in an industry with a skills shortage will be supported through free TAFE under its $1.2 billion (US$840 million) tertiary education funding election promise. Labor’s Future Made in Australia Skills Plan aims to provide Australians free access to TAFE, create more university…
More Transparency and Government Regulation Required in Early Childhood Education: Union
The United Workers Union (UWU) is calling for greater transparency and regulation in the early childhood education sector after it accused the industry of putting profits before children. In a new report (pdf), released prior to a union protest in Canberra, the UWU accused early childhood education providers of receiving significant levels of government support,…
Australia to Increase International Student Diversity in New Strategy
The Australian government will introduce a diversity index for international students in a bid to reduce any financial risk associated with focussing on one or two markets, while improving student experience, as part of a new 10-year strategy. The majority of Australia’s international student market was from China and India in 2019 and 2020—accounting for…
Maths Losing out to Ideology in Australian Classrooms: Think Tank
An ongoing ideological bias against explicit instruction in maths classrooms is the biggest reason why Australia’s performance in the subject continues to slide, according to experts. An analysis paper, ‘Failing to Teach the Teacher’, published by the Centre for Independent Studies, found that Australia’s universities were failing to teach effective instruction methods to future maths…
Future Income Depends More on What You Study Than Where You Study
A new comprehensive analysis on graduate income sourced from tax data reveal that the choice, of course, plays a more important role than the institution a student studies at in determining future salary. The findings, published on Nov. 5, analyses the 2018 income data of the student cohorts that graduated in 2007 and 2016. Education…
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