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Expert slams ‘self-serving’ education system

Schools are failing to prepare students for the future world and workplace, warns a global education thought leader

School funding benchmark ‘unreasonably high’

Changes to the schooling funding recommended by the Gonski panel have set the benchmark level of per-student funding too high, according to a new analysis

The Educator Weekend Wrap: New well-being report, female CEOs lacking & a program for the gifted

Making news this week: how Australia outranks Finland, single-sex schools named as a factor in the lack of female CEOs and a new program rolls out for gifted and talented students

Police charge alleged school bomb hoaxer

A major police operation has led to the arrest of an Israeli national allegedly responsible for a string of bomb and shooting hoaxes in 2016

Govt announces new high-rise school

Sydney students will have a new world-class high-rise school designed by an award-winning architectural firm, the NSW Government has announced

How Australian education is outranking Finland

Recent findings from a global survey show that Australia is outperforming Finland in several key educational areas – but at what cost?

Blaming single-sex schools ‘a poor excuse for a failure to act’

Don’t blame single-sex schools for a lack of gender diversity at the top, says AHISA chair, Karen Spiller

Single-sex schools a ‘factor in lack of female CEOs’

According to the CEO of a ‘big four’ bank, single-sex schools could be contributing to the lack of women in senior roles

Arson suspected in school blaze

A fire that tore through one of Queensland’s oldest schools overnight may have been deliberately lit, say police

Golden soil: Flinders Education invests in Australia’s remote and rural leaders

Remote rural principals can be community influencers across their towns or regions and provide essential educational leadership for a learning environment to flourish