Bridie Smith
Bridie Smith is an education reporter at The Age. A former desk editor, she has also reported on science and consumer affairs.
Australia news as it happened: Hanson, Joyce attend fundraiser at secret Melbourne location; Trump calls off Iran strikes; World Cup kicks off in Mexico City
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson told a glitzy Melbourne fundraiser that her far-right party would work with a future Coalition government in Victoria.
- Cassidy Knowlton, Bridie Smith and Emily Kaine
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‘AI is insidious’: Universities urged to adopt clear AI rules after opinion article scandal
Universities should set standards for academics using AI and require a guarantee work is “human-authored” before publication, a former university chancellor says.
- Bridie Smith and Caroline Schelle
Safe sex decline: Teenage condom use hits 30-year low
Parental and high school sexual health education is failing to meet the needs of young people, who are increasingly learning about relationships and wellbeing online.
- Bridie Smith
This program aimed to improve early education. Instead, it’s created a growing kinder crisis
Parts of Melbourne could be short thousands of kindergarten places over the next decade, as activity centres boom and councils struggle to keep up with demand.
- Bridie Smith
Australia news as it happened: Taylor delivers budget reply, pledges ‘biggest migration cut in Australian history’, $22.5b in tax cuts; Government calls proposals ‘uncontested nonsense’
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- Emily Kaine and Bridie Smith
A ‘degree-factory move’: University charging law students $48,000 cuts tutorials
Monash University has reduced law students’ contact with teaching staff in what has been described as a “cost-cutting, degree-factory move”.
- Bridie Smith and Jackson Graham
Victorian school students and universities caught up in global cyber hack
A popular learning management system has been infiltrated by hackers who are holding personal information to ransom.
- Noel Towell and Bridie Smith
Private school cancels buses despite traffic snarl that’s already left neighbours housebound
A grammar school has put an end to bus services designed to ease traffic congestion around their Donvale campus, raising student safety concerns and residents’ objections.
- Bridie Smith
Teachers to be offered 28 per cent pay rise in bid to avoid more strikes
A fresh offer is imminent as principals move to join in the industrial unrest at state’s 1570 government schools.
- Noel Towell, Kieran Rooney and Bridie Smith
Election year drives Allan government to hand out car rego rebates
The $750 million cost-of-living measure is the latest big-spending initiative before November’s election that defies warnings from economists and ratings agencies.
- Bridie Smith