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WACE is undergoing major changes. Here’s how it will impact students (opens the original)
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Year 12 students across Western Australia will face major changes to the system over the next two years, with plans to revamp both the general and ATAR pathways. The latest School Curriculum and Standards Authority annual report outlines a ‘WACE Refreshment’ plan, focused on “practical changes that make the certificate clearer and more responsive to student needs … aligned with others nationally and internationally”. One of those key changes, to be implemented from 2028, is a new pathway provisi
WA pollution reports assigned to employees no longer working for watchdog (opens the original)
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The environmental watchdog failed to adequately track or manage thousands of cases of contamination across Western Australia, often taking years to investigate a site or leaving the responsibility of assessment to staff members that no longer worked there. The WA Auditor General’s scathing report into the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation’s assessment of contaminated sites found over 1200 possibly contaminated sites – out of a total of 1633 – had been awaiting additional assessmen
‘A decade of poor planning’: The new WA schools with the most demountables (opens the original)
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The state government has been accused of failing to properly plan for the sharp growth in demand at schools across the Perth metropolitan area, particularly at newer schools that have opened since Labor took power nearly 10 years ago. Instead, the WA opposition claims the Department of Education has relied on demountable classrooms to accommodate a growing number of enrolments, particularly along the southern growth corridor and in newer suburbs further north. Opposition education spokesman Liam
The $611 million bill to upgrade Perth schools – and where it’s being spent (opens the original)
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More than $600 million has been spent over the past year on Western Australia’s public school infrastructure, from refurbishments and new classrooms to increase capacity, to entirely new schools concentrated in Perth’s southern corridor. The Department of Education’s 2025-26 annual report reveals that, over the last financial year, $611.05 million was spent through the public school infrastructure asset investment program. The biggest spend of the past financial year was on construction for stag
‘Witch hunt’: Former City of Perth chief executive slams unexpected sacking (opens the original)
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Sacked City of Perth chief executive Michelle Reynolds says she hasn’t heard from Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds since she was put on suspension in May. Addressing the media on Wednesday afternoon, a tearful Reynolds said it would have been a kindness to hear from her former colleague throughout the months-long investigation into her. “I have not heard personally from the Lord Mayor since I received an email at 11pm at night advising me that I was suspended. I have had no communication at all,” Reyno
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