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Award for Excellence in Education Journalism

The Herald's Education Editor, Anna Patty, has won the top national award for excellence in education journalism for the second year in a row from the Australian Council of Deans of Education.

The award recognises the highest quality of education journalism in Australia.

Patty was awarded the overall orize for her anlaysis of education issues, news and Feature writing.

Her reports included issues such as the disproportionately high number of independent students to claim special provisions for the Higher School Certificate. the burgeoning homework loans on kindergarten students and deficiencies in the Rudd Government's "education revolution".