Schools need to do more to prevent kids with disabilities from becoming victims of bullying, a WA advocacy group claims.
Bethany Hiatt
Curtin University’s Shahid Ghauri expects a resurgence in demand for MBAs as professionals look to enhance their skills amid a slowing economy and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence.
Cheyanne Enciso
Too many Australian university governing bodies are fostering a culture of dysfunction, secrecy and intimidation, a new report claims.
Elizabeth Pearce was tragically killed after Rhys Bellinge’s speeding Jaguar allegedly veered onto the wrong side of the road and ploughed into her Uber in Dalkeith.
Jessica Evensen
Too many WA schools are still encouraging victims of school bullies to be friends with their tormentors — a response that parents complain is ‘largely ineffective’.
A Perth childcare provider has partnered with Edith Cowan University to offer fast-tracked, fee-free Bachelor degrees for early childhood educators.
Rhianna Mitchell
Frustrated businesses have warned WA’s high schools are turning out more graduates who lack the basic skills and knowledge to make them ‘job ready,’ putting the State’s future economic prosperity at risk.
Roger Cook is hesitant to mandate the rollout of CCTV in WA childcare centres until it is recommended as part of a snap review in the wake of charges against a Victorian childcare worker.
Oliver Lane
Narrogin Senior High School hosted a careers day for their students last week with the Year 9s given a special vocational experience with virtual reality and diverse career demonstrations.
Hannah Whitehead
Children from different cultural or language backgrounds are twice as likely to start school with delays in communication skills compared to their peers — with girls most at risk.
WA universities have hit back at criticism they are producing under-qualified teachers who are taking advantage of a loophole to work at schools in other States without meeting the same registration standards.
The Opposition claims new figures revealing one in seven classrooms is a transportable shows the Cook Government has become far too reliant on the temporary measure to house WA’s growing school population.
Hundreds of West Australian childcare centres either don’t meet minimum quality standards or are yet to be rated as politicians across the country focus on child safety.
Katina Curtis
Parents have described their shock at opening the email with their child’s results to discover they had received a score of zero for creative writing, one of the exam’s four sections.
Children as young as two are learning mindfulness and how to regulate their own emotions all through the simple practice of yoga.
Claire Sadler
All children at WA Catholic schools will soon get a three-week winter holiday — leaving staff and students in public schools the only ones with a two-week term break.
School attendance rates in the bush have dropped in recent years, along with youth engagement in jobs, university and training, according to landmark research.
Stephanie Gardiner
A young girl was terrified of returning to class for days after a Year 3 boy allegedly made a death threat then showed her a knife he had smuggled into a primary school in Perth’s south.
Education Minister Sabine Winton has ordered the State’s Education and Care Regulatory Unit to conduct a snap review of WA’s childcare system.
Jessica Page
Analysis of plans to reduce student debt by 20 per cent has found the reduction will not speed up the time taken to repay fees.
Andrew Brown
Australind’s up-and-coming authors put their creativity to the test to raise more than $4600 to fight childhood cancer.
Craig Duncan
With only a few days left to claim the student assistance payment, the Education Minister wouldn’t commit to using any leftover funds to boost KidSport vouchers that were reduced in the recent Budget.
Albany high school ACC Southlands took on the first of four Pedal Prix races, with four teams travelling to Perth to compete in fast-paced track endurance races in pedal-powered tricycles.
Jacki Elezovich
Sabine Winton says students will be able to ‘appreciate Harry Potter a bit better’ after it was revealed Latin would be offered as a subject for senior secondary students for the first time in almost 20 years.
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