Voices advocating for students from rural and remote areas of Australia are calling for more support from airlines whose services those students and parents depend on to get to and from boarding school, often the only secondary schooling option available ...

Australia’s richest schools of 2024 have been revealed, with the top five in several states exposing a major wealth divide between public and private schools. In analysis of financial data from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA) MySchool ...

Vapes will be made available at pharmacies without a prescription after the Albanese government backtracked on its plan to ban the commercial sale of e-cigarettes so it could strike a deal with the Greens. Health Minister Mark Butler secured support on ...

A Victorian school community is reeling after fake, sexually explicit images of female students were generated using artificial intelligence and then shared on social media. About 50 high school students at Bacchus Marsh Grammar had their images altered. A teenage ...

Two public high schools in Sydney’s south west could be demolished and replaced with a forecasted $150m coeducation campus with capacity for 2000 students following a push for families to access mixed-gender education by the state government. The NSW Department ...

Only 57 per cent of Year 6 students and 54 per cent of Year 10 students attained the science proficiency standard in 2023, according to the latest Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) data. The National Assessment Program – ...

Rehiring retired teachers, incentives for regional schools, and taking aim at administration workloads are all part of the eight-point plan to ease the teacher workforce crisis after Queensland’s education experts held a schools summit on Tuesday. The key stakeholders included Education Minister Di Farmer, the ...

A group of 11 education, school parent and medical associations have banded together to call on the government to pass legislation that would ban the sale and supply of recreational vapes. On January 1 this year, the government banned the ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared his support for a petition calling on the government to raise the legal age children are allowed to create social media accounts from 13-years-old to 16. The petition, started by Nova radio presenter Michael ...

Australian students will be taught old-school discipline – including how to line up, keep quiet and be still – in a bid to rid classrooms of the behaviour crisis that sees teachers routinely abused, attacked and children disrupted. The new model of school discipline will ...