Australian children are developing high blood pressure at alarming rates, with the condition possibly setting them up for heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease later in life, experts say.
The question facing Victoria’s education workforce is not whether the revised offer is flawless. It isn’t. Negotiation is, by its very nature, about compromise. No one gets everything they want.
Victoria’s students will be staying home today as a second teacher strike disrupts public schools, leaving thousands of families to make alternative arrangements.
Tomorrow’s AEU strike action places the unequal treatment of Victorian education workers in plain sight, according to the Independent Education Union (IEU).
Parents at a Jewish school in Sydney fist bump police who man the gates every morning in a bid to reassure their child that they are safe, a principal has told an inquiry.
French MPs have approved a ban on social media access for children under the age of 15 as concerns grow around the world over the effect social media has on the health and safety of minors.
The full-day teachers’ strike slated to take place in Melbourne this Thursday will go ahead, with news Victorian union members have voted to reject the Government’s latest pay and conditions offer.
The intensification of teachers’ work is being felt most acutely by female educators, with long-held gendered expectations tied to the idea of the ‘motherteacher’ alive and well in Australian schools, new research has revealed.
Calling a government program a “slush fund” might be powerful rhetoric, but it is a poor substitute for considering the positive impact that program has delivered for families and students in need.
Back in 2010, Vivien Johnson and Samantha Disbray were working in the remote desert community of Papunya, way out west of Alice Springs.
