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What’s happening this year
Official Launch - Thursday 24 May (Canberra)
The 2007 National Safe Schools Week will be launched by the Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP. The Launch will take place at Parliament House.
Parent Forum - Sunday 27 May (Adelaide)
Teachers have launched a $1.3 million advertising campaign to protest public schools' decreasing share of funding.
Australian Education Union president Pat Byrne said public schools got 35 per cent of Federal Government funding, despite educating almost 70 per cent of all children.
Students of low socioeconomic backgrounds or government school educations are not more likely to drop out of university, a new report shows.
An analysis of university attrition rates by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) found those factors had little bearing on a student's chances of completing their degree.
Almost 60 NSW public school teachers have been removed from the classroom due to criminal investigations, child protection allegations or incompetence.
A News Limited newspaper reports that 10 teachers in primary and secondary schools across the state are facing criminal charges and 26 are being disciplined or investigated over serious child protection issues.
Australian Education Ministers agreed today that no child moving interstate would be disadvantaged in their progress through the school system as a result of entering another State’s education system.
Forcing students to eat healthy food was not the responsibility of schools, NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca said today.
Media reports today said children are snubbing healthy foods at canteens for off-campus fast food outlets and pizza deliveries to schools.
School districts should switch to OpenOffice.org instead of paying all that money for MS Office. I use OpenOffice.org Writer as my main word processor, and it does everything I need it to do. School districts must pay somewhere between $50 and $100 for MS Office for each and every computer in the school.
An investigation has been launched into the death of a schoolboy after he suffered a suspected allergic reaction to peanuts while on a camp in central Victoria.
The 14-year-old boy was one of a group of students from Melbourne's elite Scotch College taking part in an army cadet camp in the Wombat State Forest when he fell ill on Friday afternoon.
