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Bruce and Denise Morcombe are hoping a new child safety app will let parents afford their kids more freedom. The Amego app, developed by the Daniel Morcombe Foundation and developer Appfactory, works by sending an immediate notification to a parent’s ...

A Geelong Grammar School teacher’s “distressing” conduct with students was bad enough to sack him but he was kept on for more than a decade, an inquiry has heard. Several senior staff members raised concerns about maths teacher and house ...

Premier Mike Baird says he is “incredibly sorry” at the hurt suffered by one NSW mum over the Gayby Baby furore. Budget estimates hearings are often a dry affair but the questioning took a personal turn on Thursday. Upper house ...

A South Australian childcare centre is calling on the state government to fund a child abuse education and prevention program to help “unclog” the state’s child protection system. Natasha O’Brien, the owner of O’Brien’s Montessori Centre in north-east Adelaide, says ...

A sacked Geelong Grammar School teacher accused of sexual abuse was later employed as an emergency teacher and allowed to take boys away for a weekend trip, the child abuse royal commission has heard. A former student, BKV, alleges that ...

No one has the time anymore to endlessly search the internet, teacher networks or the library to put together a definitive list of quality Australian literature suited to the classroom. Online site Reading Australia, however, places educators one click away from being able to teach the best ...

Now that Cuba has restored diplomatic ties with the US, teaching English in schools will be a priority there, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma reports. In the 1970s, the study of English in Cuban schools was supplanted by Russian, ...

The NSW education minister, Adrian Piccoli, has refused to reveal how much his government plans to spend launching a controversial computer system that’s already cost taxpayers more than half a billion dollars. Piccoli fronted a budget estimates hearing at NSW ...

About 10 school children have been stopped from going through with plans to travel to the Middle East to join extremist groups. Australian Federal Police commissioner Andrew Colvin says the youngsters have been stopped before getting to the point of ...