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Education
Moderate fee Catholic schools face big hit from payroll tax
Catholic Education Commission of Victoria executive director Jim Miles said the Victorian Government payroll tax on non-government schools will rip up to $1 million from the operating budgets of moderate fee schools.
Brisbane Catholic schools to teach First Nations languages
Brisbane Catholic Education has announced a First Nations language curriculum aimed at empowering its 77,000 students to engage authentically and sensitively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and communities. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Former student’s return to Edmund Rice marks beginning of a new EREA
Edmund Rice Education Australia has appointed Liam Smith as its national executive director, bolstering the organisation’s ability to deliver best practice Catholic education to its more than 40,000 students across the country.
Offering spiritual direction to teachers could transform Catholic schools
Catholic schools have become a more diverse workforce, prompting many learning communities to introduce meaningful formation opportunities that enable all teachers to participate in enhancing the mission of the Catholic school. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Removing tax exemption likely to put pressure on Catholic school fees
Plans by the Victorian Government to remove the payroll tax exemption on some non-government schools have serious cost-of-living implications, National Catholic Education Commission executive director Jacinta Collins said yesterday.
Education head says new tax will hit more than 25 Catholic schools
Private schools in Victoria will be stripped of their long-held exemption to payroll tax next year, netting the state more than $420 million in revenue over three years. Source: The Age.
Outstanding educators in a class of their own
Nine leading South Australian educators, including one who helps students raise chickens called Hennifer Lopez and Eggie Betts, were recognised at the annual Catholic Education Awards ceremony. Source: The Southern Cross.
Townsville Catholic schools celebrate milestone
Townsville Catholic Education is celebrating 150 years of educating students – with two schools opened in 1873 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Source: The Catholic Leader.
High schools told to go ‘back to basics’ to help struggling students, teachers
Illiterate teenagers who copy and paste Wikipedia for assignments and maths teachers who can’t teach children to count show the need for a “back to basics” approach in classrooms, according to new government research. Source: The Australian.