The professor,who kept his reading difficulties a secret for years,supports Victoria’s move to structured phonics in classrooms.
Glen Fearnett hoped for change after he spoke out about being abused at a Melbourne school. Victim-survivors will now be given a platform to tell their stories.
An outraged teachers’ union has blasted Education Minister Ben Carroll for failing to respect the profession in a fierce response to the state government’s reading mandate.
Schools say they can only do so much to teach students about proper online behaviour.
Twenty-five minutes of daily structured phonics will soon be rolled out across Victoria’s prep to grade 2 classrooms.
Preshil will sell land on its primary school campus ahead of a controversial change to state taxes set to cost the school hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Students are devastated after much-loved driver Gary McDonald died in the crash on the way home from school.
Passers-by used a ladder to help pull frightened children out of the school bus after it ran off the road near Kilmore.
Jake Gilbert was clinging to the grate covering the drain when - by chance - an off-duty SES volunteer and Victoria Police constable were nearby and came to pull him free.
The Bug Lab exhibition,which opens in Melbourne on June 23,shows off the skills that insects and spiders use every day,from mind control to swarm intelligence and precision flight. Even the"bugnostic"will be swayed.
Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.