All public primary and secondary schools in Victoria will move to online learning when term two returns next week, Premier DanielAndrewsMP has announced.
All public primary and secondary schools in Victoria will move to online learning when term two returns next week, Premier Daniel Andrews has announced. A small number of staff and students will remain in schools across the state, but the premier stressed those who could be at home should be. "School is going to look very different in term two. If you can learn from home, you must learn from home,” he said.
There will be significant changes for the state’s Year 12 students with the VCE exams delayed until at least December. Mr Andrews said he hoped Year 12 students' studies would be completed in this calendar year, but the government was developing contingency plans. “An awful lot of work is being done to get our Year 12s through,” he said. "We're not about Year 13 or people repeating. We think that we can get this done.
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