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A teenage boy has been arrested over an alleged “copycat” email threat that forced hundreds of students to evacuate a boys’ school in Sydney’s north. The boy is accused of sending a threatening email to North Sydney Boys school just days after dozens of ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) is expecting a record number of students from its postgraduate education program to graduate over the next two years as Australia braces for a looming shortage of teachers. Dr Susan Simon, USC’s deputy ...

Cyberbullying is the biggest challenge to building social cohesion at schools, principals say. Nearly half of the 91 principals and assistant principals surveyed by Monash and Deakin University researchers said it was the biggest issue confronting students, while 60 per ...

“Look, why don’t you ask your teacher?” It was the exasperated lament of generations of parents frustrated by the endless and incessant questioning of their own children as they navigated homework, or even as they just wondered something banal out ...

Teachers are concerned the future of Australia’s arts and entertainment industry looks bleak as theatre courses are cut across the country. Triggered by staff redundancies and course cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two well-regarded theatre and drama degrees have ...

Schools are dropping the focus on writing too soon, say academics. Writing for The Conversation, Australian Catholic University Professor of Educational Assessment and Literacy Claire Wyatt-Smith and senior research officer Christine Jennifer Jackson surveyed more than 4,000 primary and secondary school ...

President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to a French history teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical as a "quiet hero" dedicated to instilling the democratic values of the French Republic in his pupils. Samuel Paty's teenage attacker had wanted to ...

About 70,000 students from the NSW HSC class of 2020 are starting their written exams, with COVID-safe protocols in place. Safeguards including temperature tests and spaced seating have been introduced to protect students who sit their first English test on ...

Australian researchers have mapped the hottest and coolest parts of outdoor school zones and found some reached up to 70 degrees Celsius. During summer last year, researchers collected more than 100,000 heat data points within a public school in western ...

Australian parents have, in 2020, had a peek behind the curtain of what it means to be a teacher. Sure, it hasn’t been real. I mean, any parent who contends that they’ve been “doing” remote learning themselves is having a little ...