VCE
‘I’ve always been a team player’: Ben Carroll on the VCE exam crisis and what drives him
The deputy premier knows the government is under pressure, but insists they are doing what needs to be done to turn things around.
- by Annika Smethurst
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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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Schools
Opposition slams Labor for rejecting ombudsman investigation into VCE exam saga
A motion in the upper house calling for the ombudsman to investigate the VCAA failed to pass on Wednesday, hours after the full list of compromised exams was revealed.
- by Caroline Schelle and Kieran Rooney
Opinion
Teaching
I taught for 40 years. Inspiring kids comes back to one three-letter word
Many of my students were poor; some of their stories would break your heart. They achieved successes that can’t be measured with data or NAPLAN results.
- by Dianne Kupsch
List of leaked exams to be revealed as stressed students await results
One school principal slammed the delay, saying the bungle was still stressing students and marring their end-of-year celebrations.
- by Caroline Schelle
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‘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
Students could lose marks over VCE exam breach
Victoria Curriculum and Assessment Authority boss Kylie White will leave her post immediately, as the education minister revealed early half of VCE exams were affected by the exam paper fiasco.
- by Caroline Schelle
Opinion
Letters
No time or place for slurs in civic discourse
Readers discuss Jacinta Allan’s use of the word ‘moron’ to describe protesters.
LETTERS
Letters
It’s not that difficult to set exams
The debacle in this year’s VCE exams has caused readers to respond.