Labor has promised to build five new technical colleges across South Australia if elected in March to address “chronic skills shortages” and lift school completion rates, declaring “not every kid has the ambition to go to university and nor should they”.
Teachers are calling for ventilation audits and potentially smaller class sizes to better prepare South Australian schools for future COVID outbreaks.
A veteran teacher is breaking ranks to condemn the Marshall Government’s vocational education reforms, which he says limit student choices and career pathways – but an unapologetic Education Minister insists he won’t support courses that are “a waste of students’ time and taxpayers’ money”.
Nearly 40 per cent of public school students with learning difficulties had to wait more than six months to be assessed by an educational psychologist last year – with some children waiting up to two years – according to data from the Education Department.