Evolutionary Leader

THIS is a big year for Charles Darwin, despite being dead.

School's $2m Cache Sparks Row

BRISBANE State High School has more than $2 million in the bank, despite a poor report for Queensland's state school funding.

Greed Has Made Us Very Scared

Avarice destroyed the notion that a deregulated market would be a fair one.

Leader Not In Name But In Deed Is Key To Success

A club will be among winners only if its leadership group sets high standards by its own performance.

Computers Cold Comfort For Students With Little Else

Last week on a particularly cold winter's morning, I helped my six-year-old daughter get dressed for school. She left layered like a Russian doll, to survive not the chill of the playground but the arctic conditions of her classroom. She goes to our local state primary school and the heater in her classroom doesn't work.

The Cool Way To Treat Trauma

Medicine is warming to the technique of cooling patients in order to save them, writes Mary Fallon.

Get The Facts And Maximise Your Refund

Receipts? Check. Tax Pack or e-tax in front of you? Check. Blue or black pen? Check. Before you return your, er, return, find out what you can claim for and what might have changed, writes David Potts.

Birds, Bees And Cucumbers

Three generations talk about the good, the bad and the vegetables that comprised their sex educations.

In A Different Class

To its supporters, home schooling is the way to foster creative, independent learning, away from the rigidity of mainstream education. Dave Tacon meets four families who have opted to teach their own children.

Undercover

IN THE RUNNING FOR 'SEXIST' PRIZE

A Fine Body Of Work

Suzy Freeman-Greene dodges floating foetuses in an anatomical museum and steels her nerves (they're nearby, preserved in formaldehyde) to understand the study of the human anatomy and those who carve cadavers.

Money Matters

it's important to know how to balance a budget if you are to survive at university, writes Deborah Cassrels.

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GAYS AND THE CHURCH

Sign Of Video Learning

Education via hand-held computers is proving more valuable than textbooks, writes Beverley Head.

Boys Roll Up For Special Attention From Student Tutors

READING during an extended roll call each morning is one of many innovative literacy strategies used at Sydney's Homebush Boys High School.

Always Up For A Fight

Abe Saffron had a bad reputation and he defended it vigorously to the last. Malcolm Brown reports on his life and crimes.

Japan Accuses China Of Teaching Biased History

Japan will probe China's history textbooks for errors and bias in a move that seems calculated to provoke its neighbour again.

Students Drag Chain On Maths, Science

Australian primary school students have made little or no progress in mathematics and science over the past eight years, says an international comparative study of 46 countries.

Equity And Merit

Kassandra Hobbs, 18, has used a tertiary scholarship to make the most of her ability.

Schools Told There's No Money For Books

STUDENTS going back to the classroom on Tuesday may face sharing textbooks or making do with CD-ROMs as some schools struggle with the cost of implementing the new years 7-10 syllabus.