Schools seek answers on international students
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The Andrews government is being urged to âconsider all optionsâ to get international school students back into the country, including putting them on charter flights and into residential quarantine.
Education Minister James Merlino met with principals from state, Catholic and independent schools on Tuesday afternoon, but offered them no commitment on when overseas students might be allowed back into the state.
Oakleigh Grammar principal Mark Robertson with international students Sinky and Betty.
Credit:Penny Stephens
More than 40 high-fee Victorian schools are proposing that year 11 and 12 students from low-COVID places such as China, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and Cambodia would take exclusively commissioned charter flights to Melbourne. The students would then go into hotel quarantine with
Former Scotch College teacher Andrew Robert Grant jailed for child exploitation offences
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Andrew Robert Grant was said to have exploited children in a grave and harmful manner .
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The actions of a veteran Victorian teacher who preyed upon children, getting them to send him explicit pictures of themselves, has been described as depraved by a judge.
Key points:
His 12 victims were asked to send explicit images of themselves
He will remain on the sex offenders register for life
Andrew Robert Grant, whose lengthy teaching career included a 12-year spell at Melbourne s Scotch College, was jailed for five years after pleading guilty to 13 charges relating to obtaining, possessing and distributing child exploitation material.