News & Views So you wanted to spend more time with the kids? What to do about the schools is set to return centre stage when the national cabinet later this week discusses the next steps in managing the coronavirus.
News & Views Dr Kakenya Ntaiya was engaged at 5 years old. Now, she’s educated more than 500 Kenyan girls Dr Kakenya Ntaiya is now the founder of Kakenya Centre for Excellence, a primary boarding school in the Maasai village of Enoosaen.
News & Views Quality childcare has become a necessity for Australian families, and for society. It’s time the government paid up Quality preschool can deliver $2 for every $1 from government. But some families pay more for childcare than private primary school costs.
News & Views Pauline Hanson’s particularly offensive & shocking week in politics Pauline Hanson has had a busy week in Senate, delivering some of the most shocking and disparaging speeches of her political career.
News & Views Old white men dominate school English booklists. It’s time more Australian schools taught Australian books Australian books are not consistently taught in classrooms and, when they are, they more often than not marginalise female, refugee and Indigenous authors.
News & Views Why the behaviour of male students on Melbourne’s trams is far more sinister than ‘obnoxious’ On Monday afternoon, the principal of St Kevin’s college apologised unreservedly for the violent chant his students had sung on a public Melbourne tram.
News & Views Isabel Flick, the tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia The story of Isabel Flick, the tenacious woman and campaigner who fought segregation in Australia and is a recipient of an Order of Australia medal.
News & Views Pay rises for brain builders: Why early childhood educators need to be paid more The work early childhood educators undertake is hard and valuable. Human brains learn more in the first five years than at any other time in their lives.
News & Views Universal childcare? Exactly the kind of bold idea we need Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a bold solution: to make high-quality childcare affordable for everyone in America.
News & Views Cutting teacher numbers? Never a good idea for kids Lisa Bryant responds to the suggestion by the Australian Childcare Alliance NSW that teacher numbers should be reduced to ease cost of childcare
News & Views ‘If every Indigenous person had the same opportunities I had, it could change the world’: #GOFurther The GO Foundation, founded by Adam Goodes & Michael O’Loughlin, funds Indigenous scholarships and #GoFurther is their latest campaign.
News & Views Why Labor’s plan for preschool is music to the ears of early childhood advocates If delivered, Labor’s plan for preschool would (finally) bring Australia up to speed with much of our developed world competitors.