Susan Close faces the media today. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

Local

TAFE scandal "highly likely" to affect more courses

UPDATED | The Weatherill Government has called in a high-priced independent consultancy to review the scandal-hit TAFE SA, just two months after Higher Education Minister Susan Close ordered a high-level internal taskforce she now concedes has failed – as she warns it’s likely many more courses could be in doubt.

News

State Govt to run 'watered down' version of Safe Schools

The State Government will jettison current Safe Schools lesson plans when federal funding runs out this year, opting to fund a new state-based program focused on teacher training.

Local

'Biggest schools shake-up in 40 years'... but Govt still has more questions to ask

The explicit outlawing of corporal punishment in schools and a tenfold increase in fines for truancy headline a raft of reforms in a long-awaited draft bill the Weatherill Government has dubbed “the single most significant legislative change to education and early childhood services in South Australia for more than 40 years”.

Opinion

Richardson: A robust discussion about a number of different matters

After a week like this, who wouldn’t want to be a fly on the wall at Jay Weatherill’s next cabinet meeting? Fear not: Tom Richardson has the next best thing.

News

Child protection screening dropped for parent volunteers

Parents and guardians volunteering at schools and preschools will no longer have to be screened, under child protection policy changes in place from today.