Autistic students being left out: UK study
Around four in 10 autistic children in the UK are being illegally excluded from school activities such as excursions and lessons, according to a report by the charity Ambitious About Autism. The...
View ArticleUS school asks for parents help in suicide prevention
A high school district in the US state of Pennsylvania has written to parents asking for their “assistance in preventing tragedy” after disclosing that six students had recently attempted or...
View ArticleUK independent schools taking charges over parents’ property
The economic downturn in the UK has led to parents struggling to pay school fees to allow non-government schools to take a charge on their houses as a guarantee against unpaid fees, according to the...
View ArticleScottish school shutdown over “serious failings”
A private school in the Scottish city of Aberdeen has been shutdown by authorities after a report by inspectors said the school was “failing in its duty of care to its children and staff”, according to...
View ArticleUK parents attend church in order to get children into church schools: Study
A study commissioned by the Church of England in the UK has found that many parents were attending church in order to get their children into over-subscribed religious schools. The study found evidence...
View ArticleUS students win right to wear ‘I ♥ Boobies’ bracelets
The US Supreme Court has denied a school district’s appeal of a lower court ruling that students had the right to wear “I ♥ Boobies” breast-cancer-awareness bracelets, according to Reuters. The two...
View ArticleIn a tangle about long hair? Lessons from NZ for Australian Schools
You may have heard rumblings across the ditch about Lucan, a 16 year old student whose refusal to cut his hair resulted in his suspension from a New Zealand private school. The High Court of New...
View ArticlePolar bear tragedy: protecting against ‘remote possibilities’
Facts This week’s commencement of a coronial inquest into the tragic death of 17 year old English school student Horatio Chapple while on camp has drawn attention to the serious risks that students and...
View ArticleJuly 24: School Governance weekly news wrap
Australia Directors of collapsed Mowbray College pursued in court action. 35 directors of Mowbray College, which collapsed in 2012, are being pursued by the liquidators of the school. According to the...
View ArticleAustralian schools are falling behind in innovation
If you are interested in how Australian schools are tracking against their international equivalents, the latest report into the state of Australia’s school education system from the Organization for...
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AUSTRALIA Kys: bullying’s terrifying new shorthand The Australian has reported that cyberbullying and bullying in general has received a new level of attention after the use of the shortened acronym...
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AUSTRALIA Abuse survivors alarmed over information sharing with institutions who abused them under National Redress Scheme According to ABC News, survivors of child sexual abuse in Australia’s churches...
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AUSTRALIA Payout for young woman after school ignored request to repeat year 10 The Age has reported that a young woman from Victoria’s west recently won a payout from the Victorian Education...
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AUSTRALIA Dying man wins record $1 million compensation payout for Christian Brothers abuse According to ABC News, a Perth man who has been awarded a record $1 million compensation payout for child...
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AUSTRALIA Girl arrested after alleged stabbing at North Adelaide school ABC News has reported that a 14-year-old girl has been arrested and charged by police after she allegedly stabbed another...
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AUSTRALIA Former Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson avoids jail over abuse cover up According to The New Daily, former Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson has avoided jail for covering up child sex abuse...
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AUSTRALIA Tasmania’s Catholic Church rejects mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse by priests The ABC News reported that the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart has rejected the Tasmanian Government’s...
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AUSTRALIA We asked five experts: should mobile phones be banned in schools? In an article in the Conversation, and reprinted in the ABC News, NSW Minister for Education Rob Stokes has ordered a review...
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AUSTRALIA National Redress Scheme has commenced In a Media Release from the Australian Government, it was announced that the Department of Education and Training has joined the National Redress Scheme....
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AUSTRALIA ‘Crucial to the life of a child’: The crisis facing child’s play According to The Age, learning through play is crucial to kids’ academic development but has almost disappeared from the early...
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