Selective schools are public high schools where students sit a competitive test to be accepted the year before entry.
Since European colonisation, Australia’s farmers have had to pioneer new technologies to adapt agriculture to this dry land.
Australian politicians like the idea that cheap nursing courses can increase the number of nurses, one of Australia’s most in-demand occupations over the next five years.
Last Friday, Australia’s state and federal education ministers met with emotional teachers, who spoke of working on weekends and Mothers’ Day to cope with unsustainable workloads – and how they were thinking about leaving the profession.
In their first in-person meeting for more than a year, they will also speak to principals, teachers and education experts about the crisis.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has committed to a “reset” of relations between government and universities, and promised more effort to boost the proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, in a major speech on higher education.