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‘It’s wild’: The country school producing Olympians
As the gold medals keep coming for Australian athletes in Paris, one Catholic school in country Western Australia is proud of the reputation it’s building up – a school with a knack for producing Olympians. Source: ABC News.
Catholic school adopts online learning to prepare students for university
A Melbourne Catholic all-girls school will offer students a hybrid model of teaching that includes an online component delivered by one of the largest state government schools. Source: The Age.
Harvard course shows teachers how to give students ‘thinking skills’
St Saviour’s College in Toowoomba has seen the graduation of its second cohort of teachers from the internationally acclaimed Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking course.
Low-fee Catholic schools get $243m funding for upgrades
Dozens of low-fee Victorian Catholic schools will receive millions of dollars in funding from the Allan Government to upgrade classrooms and build new facilities. Source: Herald Sun.
Why young people need to be formed with Christian humanism
How to rescue Australian culture from secular humanism and replace it with authentic humanism was the topic of discussion at the ninth annual Dawson Centre Colloquium. Source: Hobart Archdiocese.
Commissioning Mass brings together Catholic education in celebration
The Victorian Catholic Education Authority board and executive were commissioned on Wednesday at a Mass celebrated by Melbourne Archbishop Peter A Comensoli.
Political parties urged  to commit to capital funding for Catholic schoolsÂ
Catholic Education Western Australia is calling on the state’s political parties to commit to providing state capital funding for Catholic schools.
New ball game for basketballer turned teacher
University of Notre Dame Australia is offering Commonwealth Supported Places for several of its postgraduate education programs for students commencing their studies this semester. Source: NCEC.
Concerns of school and faith communities ‘blatantly ignored’
The National Catholic Education Commission says the Productivity Commission has blatantly ignored the concerns and needs of school and faith communities in its final philanthropy report, released yesterday.