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Recent headlines . . .
Technology improves communication at Monash
VIC - Staff at Monash University will
be provided with Google Apps Education edition, to help
enable staff and students to share information without software
compatibility issues and to enhance communication.
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Challenging gender perceptions
NATIONAL - This article looks at research
that shows there is a significant gender difference in the
quality of student's relationships with their teachers in
the first year of school. Teachers who participated in the
study believed girls were more compliant and displayed more
positive behaviour than boys.
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newspaper report
Welfare payments suspended under attendance
trial
NT - 'The Age' has reported that the
welfare payments of fewer than 20 parents, who were taking
part in a trial that links school enrolment and attendance
to welfare, were suspended late last school year.
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Bullying and injuries costing schools
VIC - Figures obtained by 'The Age' show
that the Victorian state government has paid millions of
dollars to students and teachers who have been bullied or
injured in public schools.
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newspaper report
Are you offended by this campaign?
VIC - Opposition Transport spokesperson,
Terry Mulder, has said that the content of a new TAC advertisement
is 'an insult to teachers and anybody who is working with
children'.
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newspaper report
School hopes for budget funds
VIC - Horsham Special School is hoping
that the upcoming state budget will allow for planned new
developments.
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newspaper report
Price check
QLD - Education Queensland deputy director-general
for infrastructure, Alan Wagner, has said the process of
competitive tendering used by the state for the Building
the Education Revolution scheme, has been successful.
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newspaper report
Concern over drug education image
NATIONAL - The Australian Christian Lobby
is concerned that NSW's 'anti-drug education' is inappropriately
promoting illegal drugs as fun or trendy.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
'How did we get in this mess?'
NSW - Nick O'Malley looks at how so many
dodgy privately owned training schools for international
students were able to operate, and questions the industry's
concern for the students involved.
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newspaper report
Indigenous education advice
NATIONAL - Director of the Cape York
Institute for Policy and Leadership, Noel Pearson, analyses
new goals set to challenge indigenous disadvantage in education.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
Short story winner a shoo-in
NSW - Sam Limpenny-Fawcett has won the
national Norman Lindsay short story award for children's
literature, with a short story he wrote entitled, 'The Long
Suffering Pair of Shoes'.
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newspaper report
Rock on!
NSW - Students at Glenhaven Public School
are thrilled that the Rock Eisteddfod is returning next
year.
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newspaper report
International
Small school, big ideas
PHILIPPINES - British School Manila, an
international school in the Philippines, is a family-filled
and friendly school where its small size makes it easier
for teachers and students to develop closer interpersonal
relationships
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newspaper report
Student run canteen misses out on junk food
profit
USA - A student run-snack bar at South
Pasadena High School has more than halved its profits compared
to last year, after a law banned junk food in Californian
public schools. The shop is run by students and is open
for 30 minutes every day.
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newspaper report
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