Education

OPINION: Identifying student with an entrepreneurial bent and streaming their skills would bring a multitude of benefits.

Treasurer Ben Wyatt says Curtin University’s $500 million investment in new facilities is indicative of the evolution of universities to provide a wider benefit to surrounding communities.

A training institute that had operations in Western Australia has been slapped with a record $26.5 million penalty and must repay $56 million to the federal government over "callous" student recruitment tactics.

Mining services company Breight Group has established a specialist training centre in Belmont to lift the skill level of workers undertaking maintenance and shutdowns on mine sites.

A recent Grattan Institute report has proposed a $1.6 billion reform package to make careers in teaching more attractive to students with strong ATAR scores.

OPINION: Listening to feedback can be confronting, but failure to do so can be detrimental to a school’s performance.

FIRM Construction and McCorkell Constructions have secured school contracts, while Broad Construction and Devlyn Constructions will undertake works for government departments, amid $23 million of new deals announced over the past fortnight.

Synergy has secured a substantial electricity supply deal with the North Metropolitan Health Service, one of several electricity contracts awarded by government agencies in the health and education sectors in recent months.

Former University of Western Australia chancellor Alex Cohen has been remembered as one of the state’s most respected medical figures.

Some of Western Australia’s top private schools are feeling the effects of the state’s ongoing economic malaise, recording a decline in enrolments in recent years.

Edith Cowan University vice-chancellor Stephen Chapman has questioned whether it is the role of universities to prepare students for particular jobs.

OPINION: School leaders and parents are increasingly questioning the way classrooms are organised.

The graduate jobs market is a competitive environment, but there is cause for optimism as parts of the state’s economy emerge out of a downturn.

The philanthropically minded family behind education-focused Fogarty Foundation has made a $15 million funding commitment to back next-generation, technology focused enterprises driven by past and present students in its scholarship programs.

Australian school students are frequently overlooking vocational education in favour of going to university to the detriment of their future career prospects, according to a report from the Grattan Institute.

OPINION: Parents naturally want the best for their children, but increasingly forceful representations to, and demands of, teachers is a problem.

OPINION: Determining the ideal classroom size is arguably the number one topic on the long list of thorny education issues to have divided policymakers, academics, school leaders, teachers, parents and even students over the past 50 years.

Curtin University and the University of Western Australia rank in the top ten universities in Australia, with Curtin jumping from 16th position to ninth in the past year, according to the Center for World University Rankings.

Former foreign minister Julie Bishop will become the first female chancellor of the Australian National University.

Teachers in Western Australia are being asked to endorse a new wage claim amid growing work demands.

Australian private equity firm Allegro Funds says it will make a significant investment in Western Australia’s largest diagnostic imaging provider, Perth Radiological Clinic, the latest in a string of deals for the sector.

OPINION: The most effective school leaders know how to work cooperatively with the members of their team, even welcoming dissent, to achieve optimal outcomes.

Western Australia-based Constable Care Child Safety Foundation has gone global with the launch of its safety education app, Arility, in the UK.

The cost of year 12 tuition at private schools in Western Australia rose by an average of 1.6 per cent for 2019, the lowest hike in fees among any state in Australia.

Donna Lund faced a workplace dilemma in 2016, working as a career practitioner at St Stephen’s School. she had found businesses increasingly reluctant to take on students for work experience.

OPINION: A failure to take care of one’s own wellbeing will quickly blunt a leader’s capacity to do what’s best for others.

Leaders from business, government and education sectors gathered in Perth last month to launch Schools Cyber Security Challenges, a national program designed to improve the digital literacy of students across the country.

SPECIAL REPORT: Among her many talents, Glenda Kickett is drawing on her sports experience to boost school attendance rates for indigenous girls.

OPINION: You need to lead a significant change program at your school and are already bracing for the resistant rants of some of your colleagues.

The $2.3 billion takeover of Navitas by private equity firm BGH, AustralianSuper and the global education provider's former chief executive Rod Jones is now legally binding.

OPINION: Growing demands on school leaders have led to a lack of confidence among many, fuelling the onset of ‘impostor syndrome’ within school communities.

Valmec has secured a $6 million contract with Newmont Mining, while BGC Australia and Devlyn Constructions have won Bunbury school construction works worth a combined $5.9 million.