Tag: Secondary Schools - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

1. School gets award after tallying blunder
   The principal of Bunbury Senior High School will present the Country Week winners shield to Albany Senior High School today after a mix-up in results.
2. School bans plastic water bottles
   Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College in Sydney's north has banned the sale of plastic water bottles.
3. Man injured after school gas explosion
   A man has suffered serious facial burns after a gas explosion at a western Sydney high school.
4. Principal guilty of teen sexual assault
   A Sydney court has heard a 46-year-old man abused his power as a principal when he raped a young student in northern New South Wales.
5. Hunter road safety program to go state-wide
   There are plans for a state-wide rollout of a student driver education program, after its success at a Hunter Valley high school.
6. Keneally urged to vary school hours
   The New South Wales Premier's office says it is up to individual high schools to decide whether to start morning classes an hour later, under a proposal to ease traffic congestion.
7. Tertiary fund set to help Dubbo students
   A charity to help students achieve their tertiary education dreams is being set up in central-west New South Wales.

BBC News - Education & Family

1. Maths fears over A-level reforms
   Plans to reform A-levels could put students off maths and lead to university department closures, an academic body warns.
2. 150 schools ask to be academies
   More than 150 top schools in England have applied to become academies, government documents show.
3. Dramatic fall in pupil expulsion
   There has been a dramatic fall in the number of pupils excluded from schools in England in the past year, official figures show.
4. 'Mocking' toddler killers jailed
   A couple who murdered a three-year-old boy in their care, inflicting more than 70 injuries on him, are jailed for life.
5. Landmark ruling on divorce money
   A "ground-breaking" Court of Appeal judgement removes the protection previously given to thousands of people in divorce proceedings.
6. Rise in parental child abductions
   A growing number of children in Britain are being abducted by a parent and taken overseas, the Foreign Office says.
7. Promise over future school cash
   Investment in England's school buildings will continue despite cuts to a major building programme, the Education Secretary says.