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A report that calls for improved oversight and management of the school chaplaincy scheme has been welcomed by the program's supporters and detractors alike. Chaplaincy provider Scripture Union Queensland said the report affirmed many guidelines it had already put in ...

The Victorian community of Strathewen has welcomed the opening of its new primary school more than two years after it was destroyed in the Black Saturday bushfires. State education minister Martin Dixon officially opened the rebuilt school yesterday. "The opening ...

Primary school students are being encouraged to donate their old mobile phones as part of a fundraising drive to support young people with cancer. As part of the campaign, schools receive a host of products, such as laptops and interactive ...

The Australian Academy of Science has announced the launch of the Science by Doing junior secondary science resources this week, following 18 months of development and testing. Science by Doing is a national initiative for the improvement of secondary science ...

New laws, to be introduced to parliament later this year, will see teachers who are convicted of serious offences automatically deregistered and banned for life from reapplying for registration. Queensland education minister Cameron Dick said the changes would strengthen safeguards ...

Plans to introduce mental health checks for three-year-olds should be expanded to include a test for learning difficulties, a leading psychologist has said. Clinical psychologist Tim Hannan believes the move would stop many parents signing their children up for treatments ...

The Shooters and Fishers Party has won the support of the NSW government to introduce shooting as a sport in more schools, it was reported this week. The Sun-Herald newspaper reported that the gun control lobby and even some in ...

Social networking should be taught in schools in order to tackle cyber bullying, parents and online experts have said. Thomas Tudehope, a director of social media intelligence firm SR7, has called for social networking skills, online etiquette and role-playing to ...

More Victorian child protection workers will work directly with children and young people under a restructure of the sector. The system that deals with vulnerable families has been under review since the coalition took office last November. Victorian Community Services ...

The Building the Education Revolution (BER) scheme has been labeled a success by the taskforce set up to investigate inefficiencies. The $16.2 billion infrastructure program, designed to combat an expected economic downturn due to the 2008 global financial crisis, delivered ...