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Police have appealed for public assistance to locate a missing 15-year-old Melbourne schoolgirl, last seen last Wednesday morning. Taylah Tahi of Pakenham was dropped off at Pakenham railway station at around 7am on March 25 to catch a bus to school. However, ...

The My School website could be set for an overhaul following the release of a review calling for a greater focus on transparency, clarity and user friendliness as well as a reduction in bureaucratic barriers to enhancing the online resource. ...

Future learning models must be built around the purpose and application of education rather than the attainment of knowledge aimed at satisfying examiners, an internationally renowned expert says. Speaking at the Future Schools conference taking place in Sydney from today, UK-based ...

Underprivileged public schools expect to receive a helping hand in the form of more philanthropic donations following the passage of federal legislation broadening the range of allowable tax-deductible contributions. The legislation, passed by Parliament last week, grants the organisation Australian Schools ...

The top primary school teachers in NSW would mentor and coach their colleagues under a re-elected Baird Government. Premier Mike Baird made the $224 million funding commitment in Queanbeyan, in the state's south, where he is campaigning to help Nationals ...

The worse a person deals with stress when young, the more likely they will develop heart disease later in life, a study suggests. Researchers in the UK and Sweden said that even exercise would do little to help after examining ...

A four-year-old girl has been accidentally locked inside a bus for four hours in country Victoria. Yarriambiack council chief Ray Campling says the girl didn't get off the bus after it stopped at her kindergarten. Teachers assumed she was absent ...

School students will be taught under a simplified and streamlined curriculum from 2016. The states and territories have signed off on changes that the federal education minister, Christopher Pyne, says will provide students with a more in-depth experience. History, geography, civics ...

Teenage boys are more likely to underachieve at school than their female counterparts, but more likely to go on to study science and maths, an OECD report says. "Fifteen-year-old boys are more likely than girls of the same age to ...

Western Australia and Victoria led the way nationally as states with the most improved schools, based on NAPLAN test data published on the MySchools site this week. For the first time, the annually released NAPLAN figures also included the 307 institutions that made the ...