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'Wholly achievable': calls grow for $10-a-day childcare

'Wholly achievable': calls grow for $10-a-day childcare

Plans to improve childcare access for families should pave the way for fees to be capped at as little as $10 per day, advocates and experts say.

Push to strengthen hate crime laws and tackle threats

Push to strengthen hate crime laws and tackle threats

Push to strengthen hate crime laws and tackle threats

Push to strengthen hate crime laws and tackle threats

The government should make it an offence to threaten marginalised Australians and set up a national database to help combat hate crimes, a committee recommends.

Call to prioritise lowering student loan debt in 2025

Call to prioritise lowering student loan debt in 2025

Call to prioritise lowering student loan debt in 2025

Call to prioritise lowering student loan debt in 2025

The peak body for universities wants the next government to prioritise lower student loan debts to reduce barriers to study and help meet a key skills target.

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Wanted: one million Aussies, Kiwis to learn AI skills

Wanted: one million Aussies, Kiwis to learn AI skills

Microsoft wants to train at least one million Australians and New Zealanders in how to use AI tools over the next two years as part of a worldwide push.

Results on time despite VCE exam blunder growing

Results on time despite VCE exam blunder growing

The results of Victorian students' Year 12 will still be released on time despite a mass publishing error impacting an extra nine papers.

Where 960 kinders, schools must be built, and built big

Where 960 kinders, schools must be built, and built big

One Australian state will need about 900 new kindergartens and 60 new government schools to keep up with demand and a growing population by 2036.

TasTAFE ignored carbon monoxide danger before poisoning

TasTAFE ignored carbon monoxide danger before poisoning

TasTAFE knew of dangerous carbon monoxide levels months before a teacher and two students were hospitalised, a damning report has found.

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Promises museum won't shut, despite ditching 2025 slate

Promises museum won't shut, despite ditching 2025 slate

Promises museum won't shut, despite ditching 2025 slate

Promises museum won't shut, despite ditching 2025 slate

A leading university art museum has cut its 2025 program, including a career survey by artist Jemima Wyman. She says she is devastated by the move.

Breaking down period stigma in remote communities

Breaking down period stigma in remote communities

Breaking down period stigma in remote communities

Breaking down period stigma in remote communities

As menstrual health can impact educational outcomes and quality of life, researchers have developed a teaching guide hoping to break down stigma around periods.

Levy on foreign students could help migration woes

Levy on foreign students could help migration woes

Levy on foreign students could help migration woes

Levy on foreign students could help migration woes

Increasing international student fees with a levy could be a better way to decrease migration numbers than a cap on enrolments, a top economics professor says.

Student safety bolstered as complaint watchdog sealed

Student safety bolstered as complaint watchdog sealed

Student safety bolstered as complaint watchdog sealed

Student safety bolstered as complaint watchdog sealed

Those who feel short-changed by their uni's response to their sexual assault or racism complaints will be able to escalate it to a student watchdog.

Laws to protect schools from spike in abusive parents

Laws to protect schools from spike in abusive parents

Laws to protect schools from spike in abusive parents

Laws to protect schools from spike in abusive parents

Schools will be given greater powers to manage violent and abusive parents, after a 200 per cent increase in bans at public schools over the past five years.

Full extent of final high school exams bungle revealed

Full extent of final high school exams bungle revealed

Full extent of final high school exams bungle revealed

Full extent of final high school exams bungle revealed

English, mathematical methods and legal studies are among the 56 final high school exams caught up in a cover sheet scandal that has prompted a sweeping review.

Thousands wiped off student debt in pre-Christmas gift

Thousands wiped off student debt in pre-Christmas gift

Thousands wiped off student debt in pre-Christmas gift

Thousands wiped off student debt in pre-Christmas gift

A year after students were slugged with a huge increase to their debts, the government has passed thousands of dollars in relief and teased of further help.

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Changing lives: childcare worker pay increase lauded

A wage increase for early childhood educators has been lauded as a first step towards universal childcare that will benefit the sector and Australian families.

Australia-wide study ordered into school bullying

Bullying in Australian schools will be put under a microscope as the federal government looks to tackle the behaviour in the real world.

Leaps and bounds: program helps Indigenous graduates

Charities will go head to head at a philanthropic pitching event, including one with a program helping Indigenous kids transition from school to university.

Hundreds of uni execs paid more than state premiers

The tertiary education union has hit out at the "excessive" salaries of university executives who have warned of hundreds of job cuts due to funding shortfalls.

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Up-and-coming artists start careers with a plan B

The latest crop of fine art graduates from RMIT University has much to say. But in a cost-of-living crisis they don't expect to make a living from art.

Migration furore treats foreign students as 'problems'

As the federal opposition prepares to reveal plans to cap international students, the political debate has left many foreign students feeling unwanted.

Extra $110m for schools ups pressure on holdout states

The education minister is working to sign updated school funding agreements with states and territories, agreeing to pump $1 billion into the nation's capital.

Foreign student cap at risk as coalition blocks bill

Uncertainty is swirling around the future of university enrolments after the opposition vowed to stand against a cap on overseas student arrivals.

Half of year 12 exams impacted by blunder, boss resigns

Victoria's year 12 exam blunder has claimed its first scalp, after half of the tests were impacted by an error that allowed students to preview questions.

Why Aussie school students are being given an AI grade

An artificial intelligence tool developed in Australia is being tested in classrooms and early results suggest it is helping students improve their answers.

Mind check: should schools track kids' mental health?

Australian schools will have access to a government-funded digital tool to support students' mental health but some question whether it will be effective.

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