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Year 9 – the ‘lost year’?

This article in The Conversation focuses on the disengagement that some students experience at school, often beginning in Year 9. According to the article: Each year in Victoria, thousands of students disengage from school between

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The facts about school funding in Victoria

This presentation, titled The facts about school funding in Victoria, was delivered by Trevor Cobbold at our 2023 Conference. The presentation clearly demonstrates structural inequality in our education system, in particular under-funding of public schools in

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School refusal – what works?

This article on the ABC Everyday website focuses on Rebecca Plunkett  from Travancore School and her experience in helping students with school refusal – or as she prefers to call it, “School avoidance”. Rebecca worked

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