Schools
WA schools, parents revisit stranger danger lessons after young girl allegedly taken
A man allegedly took a young girl from outside her Perth primary school, sparking worry from parents and children and inspiring renewed conversations about stranger danger.
- by Holly Thompson
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Parenting
Help! My school WhatsApp group is making me hate other parents
It’s not just the frequent pings. It’s the passive-aggressive nastiness. And anyone can be targeted – principals, teachers, and even volunteers.
- by Shona Hendley
School scrambles for room after accepting hundreds of kids over capacity
An inner-Brisbane school has set up half a dozen demountables and will refuse most out-of-catchment enrolments next year as it bursts at the seams.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Inside the WA school where teachers are ‘just as important as doctors’
Their role within the health system is not well known, but teachers employed to work in WA hospitals play an integral part in helping sick kids recover.
- by Holly Thompson
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Education
Siblings and high achievers: How students are dodging Brisbane’s strict school zones
More than 10,000 students are enrolling in the city’s most in-demand state schools each year — despite not living in the area.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Old people’s home for five-year-olds? Prep students don senior citizen attire
Prep students in Melbourne have celebrated 100 Days of School, an imported American tradition to commemorate a key learning milestone.
- by Najma Sambul
‘Thrown in the deep end’: Inside the plan to fix the problems with teacher training
Sarah Trestrail did a four-year education degree, then quickly realised she had no practical skills to cope with the realities of the job.
- by Lucy Carroll
Girls have overtaken boys in science participation. In workplaces, it’s a completely different story
Young women get better grades in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, but progress on jobs for women in these industries has been painfully slow.
- by Liam Mannix
Students snubbing school zones amid calls to scrap outdated model
The importance of school zones is being questioned after data released to The Age shows 41 per cent of state students attended a school outside their catchment.
- by Robyn Grace
Push to phase out open-plan classrooms as ‘40-year-old fad’ leaves some students behind
NSW is ceasing construction of outdated open-plan classrooms, but Victorian students could be left to learn in the distracting, noisy environments.
- by Robyn Grace
The Sydney suburbs with the most speeding fines in school zones
Fines totalling more than $200 million have been issued to NSW drivers for speeding in school zones since 2017 – and one region of Sydney is the worst offender.
- by Andrew Taylor and Nigel Gladstone