NOTEBOOK
The Age
Monday March 14, 2011
TOP ART IN A CLASSROOM OF ITS OWNTHE best art by last year's VCE students will go on show at the Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, from March 31. The annual Top Arts exhibition, now in its 17th year, will feature 55 works by 53 young artists. This year 110 students were shortlisted from more than 1800 applicants. More than 90,000 people visited the exhibition last year. Information: ngv.vic.gov.au.QUOTE... UNQUOTE"Under the Coalition's proposal, Victorian teachers will become the highest paid in Australia."Ted Baillieu's promise before the 2010 state election, a pledge his government is poised to break.STUDENTS BACK IN THE SADDLEFORTY years ago, more than 80 per cent of children rode or walked to school, according to Bicycle Victoria. That figure has now slipped to 20 per cent, despite most students living within two kilometres of the school gate. On Wednesday, thousands of students will give up a trip in their parents' cars, pick up their bikes and join National Ride2School Day. To learn more, go to: ride2school.com.au.SIMPLE ARITHMETIC31.5Percentage of year 10 boys who admitted being bullies (up from 22.9 per cent in year 7) in a youth development study undertaken by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.OLIVER'S ARMY FIGHTING FOR SCHOOL DROPOUTSHE'S tried changing the diets of school children in Britain and the US. Now Jamie Oliver wants to persuade a group of teenagers who have given up on education to return to school by exposing them to a collection of inspirational tutors in Jamie's Dream School. A seven-part series based on the concept has started on British TV. Among the public figures Oliver has recruited to act as teachers are Rolf Harris (right), actor Simon Callow, scientist Robert Winston, historian David Starkey and athlete Daley Thompson.
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