Roger Cook is hesitant to mandate the rollout of CCTV in WA childcare centres until it is recommended as part of a snap review in the wake of charges against a Victorian childcare worker.
Oliver Lane
Narrogin Senior High School hosted a careers day for their students last week with the Year 9s given a special vocational experience with virtual reality and diverse career demonstrations.
Hannah Whitehead
Children from different cultural or language backgrounds are twice as likely to start school with delays in communication skills compared to their peers — with girls most at risk.
Bethany Hiatt
WA universities have hit back at criticism they are producing under-qualified teachers who are taking advantage of a loophole to work at schools in other States without meeting the same registration standards.
The Opposition claims new figures revealing one in seven classrooms is a transportable shows the Cook Government has become far too reliant on the temporary measure to house WA’s growing school population.
Hundreds of West Australian childcare centres either don’t meet minimum quality standards or are yet to be rated as politicians across the country focus on child safety.
Katina Curtis
Parents have described their shock at opening the email with their child’s results to discover they had received a score of zero for creative writing, one of the exam’s four sections.
Children as young as two are learning mindfulness and how to regulate their own emotions all through the simple practice of yoga.
Claire Sadler
All children at WA Catholic schools will soon get a three-week winter holiday — leaving staff and students in public schools the only ones with a two-week term break.
School attendance rates in the bush have dropped in recent years, along with youth engagement in jobs, university and training, according to landmark research.
Stephanie Gardiner
A young girl was terrified of returning to class for days after a Year 3 boy allegedly made a death threat then showed her a knife he had smuggled into a primary school in Perth’s south.
Education Minister Sabine Winton has ordered the State’s Education and Care Regulatory Unit to conduct a snap review of WA’s childcare system.
Jessica Page
Analysis of plans to reduce student debt by 20 per cent has found the reduction will not speed up the time taken to repay fees.
Andrew Brown
Australind’s up-and-coming authors put their creativity to the test to raise more than $4600 to fight childhood cancer.
Craig Duncan
With only a few days left to claim the student assistance payment, the Education Minister wouldn’t commit to using any leftover funds to boost KidSport vouchers that were reduced in the recent Budget.
Albany high school ACC Southlands took on the first of four Pedal Prix races, with four teams travelling to Perth to compete in fast-paced track endurance races in pedal-powered tricycles.
Jacki Elezovich
Sabine Winton says students will be able to ‘appreciate Harry Potter a bit better’ after it was revealed Latin would be offered as a subject for senior secondary students for the first time in almost 20 years.
Jessica Evensen
Latin will become a study option for WA’s senior secondary students for the first time in nearly 20 years, with interest in the ancient language undergoing something of a revival.
Almost 200 incidents of WA students caught with prohibited weapons have been reported in the past four years.
Starry-eyed high school students are waiting eagerly for their science projects to be launched 2000km out of this world as part of Curtin University’s BinarX spacecraft launch.
Caitlin Vinci
Education Minister Jason Clare wants to crack down on deepfakes nudifying students and has urged his State counterparts to step up in tackling the disturbing issue.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Parents are split on the merits of a longer winter holiday for students in public schools — though it appears kids are all in favour.
Bethany Hiatt & Caitlin Vinci
Try as you might, it’s impossible to make 12 weeks of school holidays go into the four weeks of annual leave of a parent working full time.
Editorial
Education experts are encouraging schools to teach kids better writing skills in all classes — not just English.
