Pushing the limit: The Sydney school that has topped 2000 students

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Cherrybrook Technology High School is the largest public school in a city that has belatedly realised the need to build more schools — fast — as Sydney's population tracks to surge past 5.8 million by 2030.

At Cherrybrook Technology High School, more than 2000 students file in each day. They arrive together, eat lunch together and leave together.

Going up — as the new high-rise schools in Parramatta and Ultimo do — is one solution, but students still need open space to play and exercise.School Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute Dr Peter Goss said building schools near public transport and sharing infrastructure such as parking and sports facilities with the wider community will help release population pressure.

Dr Ben Cleveland, a school design expert from the University of Melbourne, said more schools are incorporating "maker spaces" replete with 3D printers to educate students about the high-end manufacturing processes of the future. "I don’t see any problem with a year 1 working alongside a year 7, or a year 6 so long as there is correct supervision ... so you don’t have massive classes where you have great age disparity," she says. "They potentially could bounce ideas off each other and create better solutions with each other in a collaborative environment and there is also potential mentoring.

Chiang Lim from the Childcare Alliance said many centres have had to start offering new services as parents become more discerning."You are not seeing the competition on a price level, you are seeing the competition on everything other than price, be in the location, the feel of the place and the staff," Lim said.It is not only the early childhood education sector that is booming. Higher education is Australia’s third-largest export.

 

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We could build fewer people or more specifically stop importing the low skilled Third World en masse. It's just a dumb lazy greedy rent seeking and vested interest policy choice with the cost passed to the plebs.

Make sure the languages taught are Arabic and Chinese... By 2030 English might not be needed anymore.

That’s the Eddie Woo effect 👍

nickbonyhady sarah_keoghan weir_benjamin The current population track is bad. Limits to growth have already been passed many years ago. The absorption capacity is exhausted. The creative thinking must include to reduce immigration, and fast.

Schools, hospitals, roads, PT, energy, water, we aren't ready for a bigger population.

US schools have 4k students n bullying becomes hard to control Just think d billions gov has to spend due to big migrants intake Freeze n they could save d billions Why do we need to follow Bangkok n Lagos?

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