A University of South Australia (UniSA) study on school discipline discourse found 'gaps' in the NSW behaviour strategy, and said suspending students could exacerbate bad behaviour in disadvantaged kids who need more support in the classroom. The study said that ...

More than 4000 NSW teachers who left the classroom to take administrative roles such as assistant and deputy principal will have to return to the classroom. In one of the Minns government’s most significant school overhauls, the Coalition's Local Schools, ...

Schools are ideal places to empower students through leadership opportunities, from a place on the student representative council (SRC) to president of the chess club. Students who undertake leadership opportunities are often the same students who achieve higher grades, are ...

Hundreds of teachers and school principals have hit out against proposed Queensland laws that would grant parents and students the right to appeal against short-term suspensions in public schools, warning changes would dramatically increase workloads of burnt-out school leaders. Education reforms ...

A new report says current school-improvement models aren't capable of tackling the immense challenges our education system is currently facing; including increasing teacher recruitment and retention, and improving student learning. A "goldilocks" solution – stemming not from a single, isolated ...

Education authorities remain insistent that the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests are an effective tool and useful in tracking student learning, three years after a survey found teachers disagree. This is the second year NAPLAN was held ...

Lack of time to focus on teaching and the the "sheer quantity of work" are among the top stressors driving one in two principals to seriously consider quitting their jobs, a damning survey has revealed.  The Australian Catholic University’s Principal Occupational Health, ...

Bullying in Australian workplaces is a problem – a 2015 report from Safe Work Australia (SWA) found 9.4 per cent of its respondents had been bullied in their workplaces in the past six months. This was an increase from seven ...

With the decline in Australia’s international standings, and the shortage of teachers prepared to teach in the current environment, there is not a school in the country that could be satisfied with the status quo. During my visits to Finland, ...

Cranbrook in Sydney’s east is one of the most elite boys schools in Australia. On Monday night, the ABC’s Four Corners program aired claims some female teachers had been bullied by male staff and sexually harassed by students. Amid the ...