Billions needed for 900 new kinders, 60 supersized schools
The infrastructure agency says demand for early education is exploding across Victoria, and nearly 140,000 new places will be needed by 2036.
- by Noel Towell
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Melbourne Uni agrees to repay $72 million to academic staff
The prestigious university has agreed to pay millions in interest and superannuation on top of the wage repayments to 25,000 current and former staff. One worker was underpaid by $150,000.
- by Noel Towell
Results are in: The public schools beating their private rivals
This year’s NAPLAN results highlight the ability of lesser-known state schools to compete with their better-resourced private rivals. See the list.
- by Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle
Search your school’s results using our 2024 NAPLAN interactive guide
Search The Age’s interactive guide for the complete set of NAPLAN results from every Victorian school.
- by Noel Towell, Caroline Schelle and Alex Crowe
How the state’s top-performing schools fared in NAPLAN 2024
Senior students at Victoria’s best state schools outshone their private school peers in this year’s NAPLAN tests.
- by Noel Towell and Alex Crowe
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VCE
‘Stressed and overworked’: Inside the agency that failed the VCE
Public servants at the troubled Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority have been complaining for years of overwork and understaffing.
- by Noel Towell, Carla Jaeger and Caroline Schelle
Wash-up of exam fiasco could delay VCE results and prompt stream of student appeals
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority says it is on track to deliver ATAR results by December 12, but concedes tens of thousands of “grade checks” could push the date back.
- by Noel Towell
Demands grow to review students’ marks after VCE exam leaks scandal
Students, experts and teachers say it’s untenable for the state’s exam authority to press on with grading compromised exam papers as normal.
- by Noel Towell
Labor MP Bronwyn Halfpenny makes an A1 recovery from her AI slip
After some gentle teasing this week over getting her A1s and AI’s in a muddle in a speech to a tech summit, CBD acknowledges fair play to Bronwyn Halfpenny.
- by Noel Towell
Shorten to gather a Ballyhoo’s who for Canberra farewell
Former Labor leader looks set to make a night of it in the capital on Thursday after he bids a formal farewell to the Parliament.
- by Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Schools
Radical shift in teaching proposed to tackle worker shortage
A shorter working week in government schools is part of the answer to the chronic workforce shortage, says the education union and academic researchers.
- by Noel Towell