Public schools win young, but lose seniors
Emma Macdonald ACT government schools are slowly but surely clawing back a proportion of students from non-government schools in the primary and high school years.
Outcry as private schools approved
Emma Macdonald The ACT government has approved three new private schools - two Christian and one Islamic - to be built in the ACT despite vehement protests from public education groups that they threaten the...
Fight for Flynn is on again
Emma Macdonald Seven years after the Flynn community lost a furious battle to keep its government primary school open, the war is back on with residents outraged the ACT government has approved the building of a...
Calls for Minister's sacking over new school approvals
Emma Macdonald The ACT Government may consider legislative changes to the way in which new private schools are approved in the future following community unrest about the latest batch of approvals.
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Students bemoan end of scholarships
Emma Macdonald Arts/science student Amy Constable cannot imagine how she would have ended up at the Australian National University had she not had access to a Student Start-up Scholarship, which provides her with...
Salaries soar for 'super teachers'
Emma Macdonald Thirty-year-old Canberra teacher Amanda Hawkins never went into the profession for the money.
ACT children fare better on wellbeing than peers
Emma Macdonald Canberra's five-year-olds are slightly less vulnerable to developmental delays than other children across Australia.
Not-so-glorious food in capital canteens
Emma Macdonald ACT school canteens have produced the worst nutritional results of a nationwide analysis of food available to students.
Why work on the homefront won't count this year
Emma Macdonald The millions of hours that women put into unpaid household, voluntary and community work will go uncounted this year as the government axes the Bureau of Statistics Work, Life and Family Survey to...
Teacher quality parents' priority
Emma Macdonald Canberra parents are more concerned with how talented their children's teachers are than class sizes.
Manager sees fruits of labour in war on junk food
Emma Macdonald Her Italian heritage has given Jackie Thornton a love of good food and fiery determination. And she has needed both in spades to turn around the ailing fortunes of the Florey Primary School canteen.
Union applauds clamp on UC plans
Emma Macdonald The National Tertiary Education Union has welcomed the federal government's rejection of UC's plans to expand into Melbourne.
Almost 90 notices issued in workplace safety blitz
Emma Macdonald At least 88 improvement and infringement notices – amounting to up to $50,000 in fines – were issued on Wednesday after a work safety blitz on building sites in Harrison.
Uni puts Joss on fast track to future
Emma Macdonald An Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99 sounds impressive, but if you want to be the next Brian Schmidt - the Australian National University astrophysicist who won the 2011 Nobel prize in physics...
Family's pain stretches around world for Cavs coach
Emma Macdonald Thom Carter is familiar to most Canberrans as the American recruit and general manager of baseball team the Canberra Cavalry who regularly talks sport on local ABC radio.
Limit trauma of tragedy, parents told
Emma Macdonald Education Editor Parents should monitor how much media coverage their children are exposed to in the wake of the horrendous school shooting in Connecticut so they do not become traumatised or overwhelmed, child...
Top of the class: high achievers honoured
Emma Macdonald Merici College student Danielle Farrell has had a very satisfactory year. Not only was she dux of the school but she found time for community service for which she was also honoured.
ACT to move on shoddy engineers
Emma Macdonald The ACT could become the second jurisdiction in Australia to register engineers in an attempt to crack down on shoddy operators who have been responsible for serious construction collapses in the...
Dodgy builders to be shamed in safety culture shake-up
Emma Macdonald Up to 12 new safety inspectors will be brought on as a matter of urgency, dodgy builders will be named and shamed and on-the-spot fines will be introduced in an attempt to urgently rebuild a safety...
Fear the music may stop
Emma Macdonald A former foreign minister says he is a ''brilliant strategist''. His former boss calls him ''gifted and insightful''. And those who work closely with him say he is unflappable and unfailingly polite.
