They fixed a ‘broken’ ballet star. Now these researchers are schooling footy players

Inside the ballet’s rehab centre,dancers spin with trackers teaching La Trobe researchers about the limits of the human body. And saving dance careers.

  • Sherryn Groch andNicole Precel

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Emma McDonald,deputy head and head of senior school at St. Michael’s Grammar School says maintaining a gender balance is important.

Private schools’ cut-throat fight for girls,as boys struggle for spots

Schoolboys are battling for a spot at Victoria’s high-fee schools,while other private schools fight to attract girls in a competitive market.

  • Nicole Precel
The University of Melbourne.

Australian unis fall in global rankings,Melbourne University tops the country

Melbourne has held its spot in the world’s top 50 universities,but all Australian universities in the top 200 have fallen in the latest rankings.

  • Nicole Precel
Teachers need more help on how to teach as well as what to teach.

Free uni degrees,living costs covered for Victorians studying high school teaching

The Australian Education Union says job vacancies are at an all-time high,with as many as 2600 jobs yet to be filled,as the government announces the $229 million subsidy package.

  • Broede Carmody andNicole Precel
First preferences for university applications show health,society and culture the most popular for students in the first intake.

This is Gen Z’s top university course choice — and it’s not teaching

Tertiary admissions data reveals the most in-demand fields for university study,and it appears passion,not money,is driving students’ choices.

  • Nicole Precel
Matt Kaplan (left) and Liam Arnold-Levy outside court in September.

Senior staffer to apologise in person over Brighton Secondary antisemitism

Jewish students who experienced racial discrimination at the school will get a verbal apology in front of the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation after a court found the state failed to protect them.

  • Robyn Grace andNicole Precel
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Nadia Marikar,15,sat Tuesday’s English exam.

At 15,Nadia Marikar was the youngest student to sit the VCE English exam

As 43,373 of the state’s students sat down for Tuesday’s three-hour-long exam,one was calm and collected despite the enormity of the event and her young age.

  • Nicole Precel
Rally attendees stand in solidarity with Palestine at the Victoria State library during the Melbourne Rally for Palestine.

Israel-Hamas conflict as it happened:pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne,Israel strikes Gaza again

Reports that two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a compound in the occupied West Bank.

  • Nicole Precel andLaura Chung
Kate Evans and daughter Riley who goes to Wesley.

‘Overwhelmed with boys’:Wesley College applies to discriminate based on gender

One of Victoria’s most expensive private schools wants permission to enrol more girls,arguing it is at risk of becoming a boys’ school by default.

  • Nicole Precel
Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann.

‘I’m Jewish,but I am scared to show it’:Melbourne’s Jews respond to Israel attacks

Melbourne is home to Australia’s largest Jewish population,centred on a collection of south-eastern suburbs. People there say they are afraid and shaken.

  • Lachlan Abbott,Nicole Precel andMelissa Cunningham