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Schools that Excel: Keilor Downs College thrives despite COVID hit We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The Melbourne school hit by the most COVID closures last year emerged with happier students and improving VCE scores. Keilor Downs College principal Linda Maxwell said the upswing in academic results and student wellbeing was down to a collective effort to keep the school community connected through shutdowns when coronavirus cases were detected, and during the state’s hard lockdown and move to remote learning...

A TOWN college is one of six education providers collaborating in a bid to become the first Institute of Technology in the Solent.

Major Jeff Beadle, Marine who led a daring assault on a hill on Brac island in the Adriatic – obituary His bravery and leadership won him an MC, but he was badly wounded in a German counterattack and after being left for dead was captured Jeff Beadle Major Jeff Beadle, RM, who has died aged 98, led an audacious assault on a hill on an island in the Adriatic; after being badly wounded during a German counterattack, he was left for dead and ended up being taken prisoner. On the night of June 3 1944, Beadle commanded Y troop of 40 Commando, Royal Marines which attacked a heavily defended hill ...