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1 day ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy
A new report has urged the federal government to collect national data on chronic absenteeism and embed layers of support in schools to tackle Australia’s growing student attendance crisis. The report, provided exclusively to Guardian Australia by Independent Schools Australia (ISA), drew from interviews with academics, mental health clinicians and teachers. It called on the government to implement a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to better support children struggling to stay in school.
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1 day ago | 
msn.com | Caitlin Cassidy |Catie McLeod |Rafqa Touma
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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy |Henry Belot
The Albanese government has been urged to end an “outrageous” and “cruel joke” that incentivises donations to Australia’s richest private schools in return for a tax deduction. But the peak body for independent schools says the criticism is overblown and that tax-deductibility is “essential” to build campus infrastructure, with 95% of capital expenditure funded through parent contributions, fundraising, loans and philanthropy.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy
Northern Territory police are offering a $500,000 reward for information on the location of the remains of British backpacker Peter Falconio, whose murder in the Australian outback more than 20 years ago captured worldwide attention. In July 2001, Falconio, then 28, was travelling Australia with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, on a remote stretch of highway about 300km north of Alice Springs in the NT when he was pulled over by Bradley John Murdoch, who said their van might have an engine problem.
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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Henry Belot |Caitlin Cassidy
A $50m pledge to “revolutionise endometriosis research” by a family with links to a poker machine giant has divided academics and public health experts, who believe universities should distance themselves from the gambling industry. But other university staff cite a “moral obligation” to immediately use the money to ease the suffering of roughly 1 million Australian women living with endometriosis, rather than wait for “perfect funding sources”.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy
Weeks after 7 October 2023, Hala Alsammakstood at the site of her once bustling university in Gaza. Al-Azhar university had been reduced to rubble. Alsammak had begun studying there after graduating from the Holy Family School in 2022, where her father had taught biology for more than two decades. After the Hamas attack on Israel, and the Israeli invasion of Gaza, the school became a place of shelter for hundreds of displaced people. Then, in July last year, it was bombed, killing four.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy
Dozens of Australia’s top universities have tumbled down in a global ranking amid a “turbulent year” for higher education, as attacks from Donald Trump’s second administration exacerbated years of disruption for the embattled sector. The University of Melbourne, Australia’s highest performer, dropped seven places to 19th in the QS World University Rankings, run by the global higher education specialist Quacquarelli Symonds, while the University of Sydney dropped from 18th in the world to 25th.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy
New South Wales and South Australia residents have been warned to stay away from wild mushrooms after a surge in the detection of highly poisonous death caps, including in Sydney. Amanita phalloides, commonly known as death cap mushrooms, have been found growing in Sydney, the southern highlands, southern NSW and the Adelaide hills after high rainfall, health officials say. . They warn that children are particularly at risk.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy
When children began at Ingleburn public school in south-west Sydney with disruptive behaviour, parents often laid blame with the teachers and their educating style. Then the school opened a world-first behavioural clinic that brought families into the school grounds – with “dramatic results”, according to the school’s principal, Graeme Green. He says that after 25 years on the job seeing many programs with varying results, “I’ve never seen such a calm, beautiful school operating”.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Catie McLeod |Caitlin Cassidy |Nick Visser
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