Tag: Secondary Schools - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

1. Darwin schoolboy's song performed across country
   A song co-written by a Darwin schoolboy is being sung by 500,000 students from around the country as part of a national music program.
2. Union fears halt to education changes
   Teachers and staff at Tasmania's secondary colleges fear the post-year 10 system they fought to overturn, will remain.
3. Union meets over education roll back
   Tasmania's education union has called a meeting today to discuss concerns about the roll back of Tasmania Tomorrow.
4. Core test for year 12 students
   About 30,000 year 12 students are preparing to take the Queensland core skills test today.
5. 10-year teaching rule to go under shake-up
   Teachers will not be forced to move schools every 10 years under a planned shake-up of the SA public school recruitment system.
6. School loses roofing during strong winds
   A Gisborne Secondary College building lost part of its roof during strong winds on Saturday afternoon.
7. Charges laid over Brighton school lockdown
   Police have laid several charges against a 15-year-old boy who allegedly took a samurai sword into Brighton Secondary School in Adelaide.

BBC News - Education & Family

1. Tory defects over schools scheme
   A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
2. Men in short supply in primaries
   One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.
3. Music tuition falling, poll says
   Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests.
4. School lottery 'failed in aim'
   England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.
5. Prodigy makes Cambridge history
   A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.
6. School meals 'help fussy eaters'
   School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests.
7. Ellen MacArthur's global ambition
   Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur has set herself a new challenge - creating an educational foundation to promote sustainability.