NSW education shows some improvement but must apply itself more
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NSW education shows some improvement but must apply itself more

NSW has carried an unenviable reputation for a public education system hit by falling standards,teacher flight and cancelled classes but Minister for Education and Early Learning Prue Car told a school summit those days were receding with recent reforms.

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High potential and gifted education is available in only half the state’s schools,but Education Minister Prue Car plans to change that.

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Almost half of NSW’s year 1 students do not read as well as they should
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Almost half of NSW’s year 1 students do not read as well as they should

The most disadvantaged year 1 students were half as likely to meet the expected standard as their advantaged counterparts.

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Tudge ‘very cautious’ on international student return

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NSW Education Standards Authority chief executive Paul Martin said he believed the idea,where students progress through school according to their ability rather than their age,had merit but implementing it next year “was too radical for the moment”.

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