Tim Williams
The Advertiser
Adelaide, SA, Australia
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SA man sorry for drunk rampage he can’t recall
A South Australian man who went on a violent rampage in Bali, allegedly assaulting a man in his home and fly-kicking a motorcyclist from his moving bike, says he was drunk and wants to compensate his victims. → Read More
Assistance dog barred from holiday park
A Murray Bridge family will complain to discrimination authorities after an Adelaide holiday park refused to accept their assistance dog in training was properly accredited, forcing them to abandon their weekend trip. → Read More
Strike to close 258 schools amid war of words
More than 250 schools and preschools will close on Monday when thousands of teachers strike for the entire day to rally outside Parliament House. → Read More
Hundreds of schools to be hit by strike action
The fate of Year 7 teachers who do not want to move into high schools is one of the issues that has led to next Mondays strike, which could see up to 400 schools close or run limited programs, the education union says. → Read More
NAPLAN dropouts dog dozens of schools
Dozens of SA schools have reported technical problems with NAPLAN online, with some students locked out of the system for most of the test time and in the worst cases left in tears, the Australian Education Union says. → Read More
Major test as NAPLAN moves online for thousands of SA kids
Students from at least 510 SA schools, more than 70 per cent of the state’s total and way above the national average of about half, will sit NAPLAN tests online starting on Tuesday. → Read More
Students have really made the grade
When Walford students come back down to Earth from their space odyssey, they will be returning to a new science centre named after one of The Advertisers list of extraordinary female Ceiling Smashers. → Read More
Why this big fish is so dumb
Theres not much going on between the gills of the coelacanth fish — its brain cavity is 100 times bigger than the brain itself, which is unique among todays vertebrates. → Read More
Parents pushing for elite teaching standards
South Australian parents want teaching standards lifted by raising the minimum ATAR for entry into education degrees to 80. → Read More
They’re training cats and dogs but pigs won’t fly for new vets
Aspiring vet students should be screened to find out which ones genuinely want to work with pigs and fish not just cats and dogs so they will take hard-to-fill jobs. → Read More
Student protesters turn up the heat in climate change march
A heartfelt expression of concern from students about the future of our planet, or an activist-driven, politically motivated farce aimed squarely at ousting the Morrison Government. → Read More
Teachers won’t rule out more strikes
The teachers’ union says the State Government should be able to fund its demands for smaller classes and more support for teachers of kids with special needs, in light of the millions it has found for moving Year 7 into high school. → Read More
Thousands eagerly awaiting SACE score
Jordan Routley wont be the first journalist who struggles to read his own notes sometimes. → Read More
Energy giant mining for talent
One of the states biggest resources companies is investing in a school program to address a shortage of geologists. → Read More
UniSA’s Museum of Discovery — or MOD — to open next week, aims to encourage young people into science careers
BIZARRE surgically enhanced babies, a disembodied teenager and a room of pain — these are some of the exhibits in a museum aimed at switching a generation of young South Australians on to science careers. → Read More
Walford graduate Varvara Vassilieva wins place at UK’s prestigious Cambridge University
SHEs originally from Russia, speaks five languages and reads philosophy for fun. → Read More
Top of the class — meet SA’s best students
ITS a good thing Ben Fitzgerald and Cassandra Larobina didnt procrastinate in their Year 12 studies as much as they did when it came to checking their results. → Read More
SACE hoax letter tells students to resit biology exams
A LETTER circulating on Facebook suggesting thousands of Year 12 biology students will have to resit their exam has been exposed as a hoax. → Read More
Shock over Unley High students’ Schoolies T-shirts
PICTURES of a bong and goon bag and the words the drunkest and the highest are how dozens of Year 12s from a public high school plan to present themselves at schoolies. → Read More
Gravitational waves breakthrough: Adelaide University scientists play role in major space research
THIS pair of tiny stars collided in a spectacular death spiral 130 million years ago. → Read More