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Hands-on units serve up jobs: Students who take vocational courses in the HSC are more likely to find jobs smh.com.au 8/6/07
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Advice can only bring pain in year 12: In Year 12, more annoying than assessments, exams & endless homework; more tiring than getting up for early morning lessons & staying late after school - the dreaded tips & hints from everyone... smh.com.au 12/6/07
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Digi-kids and a new way of learning: An education revolution that all sides of politics have failed to address smh.com.au 19/5/07
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Year 7 kids to get pastoral care: The Premier, Morris Iemma, says he will spend $11.5 million on "pastoral care" to help year 7 students settle in at high school smh.com.au 20/3/07
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Haves or have-nots, that is the question for education: Educational advantage, and its opposite, start early in life. And while some kids are merely slow off the block, and others show pluck and resilience in the face of dysfunctional families, many youngsters never catch up. smh.com.au 3/3/07
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Get with the program: The old system is not the kind of education future workers need. smh.com.au 10/2/07
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Teachers plead for TAFE support smh.com.au 26/11/06 Students so poor they eat own worksmh.com.au 25/11/06 Read the report tafefutures.org.au Nov 06
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Poor soar at university: Research has exploded some myths about uni entry and performance - including the notion that richer children and students from private schools get better marks. smh.com.au 30/10/06
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Real test lies outside the HSC: Sitting for the HSC is an experience so daunting it comes with its own advice line - like giving up smoking or searching for relatives feared lost in a foreign disaster... smh.com.au 19/10/06
* UAI should not be sole door to university: Megan had always been a top student. And she still found time to devote to music lessons and sports. Then disaster struck. At the start of her HSC her father died... smh.com.au 17/10/06
* Too much focus on HSC marks: Students should be considered for uni on a broader range of factors than marks alone, to be fair. smh.com.au 9/10/06 -
A whodunit with sentences as the crimes: Understanding written English is a life skill for all, not a privilege. smh.com.au 12/10/06
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Curriculum gap to be bridged: NSW schools will introduce programs starting in primary school and ending in high school to cut back on the number of children who become less engaged as they make the transition. smh.com.au 12/10/06
* Students get lost in transition: Children moving from primary to high school can face such difficulties adjusting that a specialist teacher should be in each high school to help. smh.com.au 21/9/06 -
Get a grip - on lifelong learning: People's job prospects and incomes are closely linked to their personal and professional skills. Why have so many businesses and governments taken until now to realise the importance of education and training? smh.com.au 27/9/06
* Report: Review of Skills Base in NSW & Future Demand for Vocational Education & Training ipart.nsw.gov.au -
Jobs crisis for girls who quit school: Girls who leave school early face more disadvantages than boys and risk being locked out of the job market. smh.com.au 25/9/06
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Another look at values education: A study of 10,000 adolescents found they are less likely to smoke, binge-drink or try illicit drugs if they feel safe and valued at school. They are also less likely to engage in under-age sex or antisocial behaviour such as vandalism or theft. theage.com.au 18/9/06
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Active school life can keep kids healthy smh.com.au 14/9/06
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Expert warns of colonial divide in education: Australia is repeating mistakes of US and UK education systems by adopting a class-based model where public schooling is treated as a charity for the poor. smh.com.au 22/9/06
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Indigenous education plan includes 20 more schools: a NSW initiative aimed at closing the performance gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students abc.net.au/news 4/9/06
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technology:
* Why learning is child's play: One highly respected academic who espouses the value of interactive games in education believes the commercial game industry will never realise the full potential of educational gaming. theage.com.au 7/9/06
* Shoot the messenger and put an end to Cyberslang: IF U R N2 SMS TALK, N U LIKE DIS WAY OF RITING, WELCUM 2 DA SILENT MAJORITY. That's right, the silent majority, because there is more real communication between two stunned mullets floating downstream in a current than on mobiles, IRC, ICQ, and iPods used by youth and corporate colleagues these days. smh.com.au 6/9/06
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Victim seeks damages from bullies: A Sydney schoolboy who was bullied, threatened and attacked by fellow students is suing his tormenters for more than $100,000 in damages. smh.com.au 5/9/06
Give me a child until he is ... five: In the aggressive or unfeeling behaviour of toddlers lie the seeds of future school failure, reckless driving and criminal activity... smh.com.au 26/8/06
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leaving school early:
* Early mark that can leave you on the scrap heap smh.com.au 17/6/06
* Unemployed youth at risk of drug abuse, violence www.abc.net.au 10/5/06
* Drop-outs turn to drugs, alcohol: study smh.com.au 10/5/06 -
Birthright still the best hope: A student's socio-economic background is a more reliable predictor of achievement in Australia than in other parts of the developed world. And 25 per cent of early school leavers came from just 5 per cent of postcodes. smh.com.au 13/5/06
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Why every Australian family needs the internet: Imagine a country where the children of poor families are denied textbooks at home. Where they can't look up words in a dictionary or the latest facts and figures in an encyclopedia. Where children of the rich have access to the best libraries and the best education, while others are excluded. smh.com.au 24/6/06
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30% of Australian Children in State Care Missing Out on Education: children and young people in state care are missing large amounts of school, are less likely to finish school, and have often been kept back a year. create.org.au 18/8/06
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Breaking the hold of school bullies: Peer mediation between victims and aggressors is one of the methods teachers are using to overcome the problem. smh.com.au 13/7/06
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Schooling choice leaves poorest to struggle: Australian students from poorer backgrounds are doing worse at school than many of their international counterparts. smh.com.au 8/7/06
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Chaplain bid provocative and divisive: The proposal to employ chaplains in Australia's state schools is receiving support from John Howard. But Christian clergy have no place in public schools. theage.com.au 25/6/06
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Don't be put off by a bad start - turn high school trauma around: When Nina Calleja started high school she admits she changed from being a happy and outgoing student to a shy girl upset at her inability to make friends easily. smh.com.au 18/6/06
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Muslim sex education: just say no: Islamic schools in Australia have adopted a sex education policy aimed at overturning the influence of Western sexual values on their students. smh.com.au 29/5/06
