Melbourne is home to Australia’s largest Jewish population, centred on a collection of south-eastern suburbs. People there say they are afraid and shaken.
A family with three children at Leibler Yavneh College faces legal action over almost $300,000 in unpaid school fees, as cost-of-living pressures raise concerns of more debt collections.
Toxic car fumes are a consequence of increased traffic congestion around schools – and cities like Copenhagen and New York have taken drastic moves to fix the problem.
Parents say they feel cheated by the review process that has deemed four Catholic schools in Melbourne unviable and earmarked them for closure by the end of the year.
At school I had coins tossed at my feet, in the anticipation that as a Jew I’d stingily pick them up and pocket them. The same behaviour continues today.
Pandemic fallout, cost-of-living pressures and caring responsibilities are hampering long-term career opportunities for a growing number of students’, new research shows.
Teachers often feel unprepared when it comes to teaching reading comprehension, research shows, but one school has made a change with startling results.