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1 week ago | 
theage.com.au | Noel Towell
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of senior students removed from a prestigious regional private school’s boarding hall because of the alleged abuse of their younger schoolmates have been allowed to return to the residential facility.
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1 week ago | 
watoday.com.au | Noel Towell
It is the latest sign of parent unrest after a “Coalition of Boarding Parents” wrote to Ballarat Grammar’s board in February, placing the blame for the scandal firmly with the school and demanding accountability from the institution.
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1 week ago | 
theage.com.au | Noel Towell
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The upmarket regional private school at the centre of a “strapping” abuse scandal could be forced to close its boarding houses after the state government’s education regulator launched an official review of its registration as a residential facility.
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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Noel Towell
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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Noel Towell
By Noel Towell April 30, 2025 — 12.07pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key leaders at a prestigious Victorian private school, rocked by allegations of systematic physical abuse of young students by older schoolmates, have resigned.
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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Noel Towell
By Noel Towell April 28, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. High school students are shunning the “hell” of ATAR-scored final exams and flocking to the vocational VCE in their thousands, with the alternative stream experiencing a surge in enrolments of almost 20 per cent last year.
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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Noel Towell
By Noel Towell April 26, 2025 — 5.46am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parents of senior boarders accused of the violent abuse of fellow students in the dorms at Ballarat Grammar say the blame for the “strapping” scandal is all on the school.
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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Noel Towell
“Instead of acknowledging and correcting the complete inadequacy of adult supervision in boarding houses, the school appears to be shifting focus onto students, as if they alone bear the responsibility for perpetuating this culture,” the parents wrote. “This is both unfair and dangerous. “These students, now facing scrutiny, have been acting on learned behaviours ingrained by the very system that the school put in place and failed to reform.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Alex Crowe |Noel Towell
Pro-Palestine educators send teachers new classroom resource challenging ‘Anzac mythology’By Alex Crowe and Noel Towell April 24, 2025 — 1.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Noel Towell
The worst paid teachers in Australia are spoiling for a fight to get a better dealBy Noel Towell April 19, 2025 — 1.28pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.
