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Right faction powerbroker Peter Malinauskas will take over as leader of the SA Labor Party, with left-winger Susan Close as his deputy, after both MPs today confirmed they would put their hands up for nomination.
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The former CEO of TAFE SA says the board should be “held to account” for “disturbing” failures in the training organisation, revealing he warned the Weatherill Government that a previous attempt to review the under-fire organisation this year lacked independence.
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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.
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.
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”.
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.
Parents and guardians volunteering at schools and preschools will no longer have to be screened, under child protection policy changes in place from today.
