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A mass shooting at a US elementary school has claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. Yesterday, at around 11:30 local time, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos drove to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a small city in Texas located ...

Educational apps used by millions of students during the pandemic harvested personal information and tracked children's locations without consent, a global investigation has found.  Recent analysis from advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) looked at 164 educational applications and websites ...

There are growing concerns among health professionals over the impact rising flu cases are having on Australian kids. The nation is going through a “flurona” after Covid measures and border closures virtually stopped influenza from spreading over the last two ...

Labor is set to form the 31st parliament of Australia after Anthony Albanese emerged victorious over Scott Morrison on Saturday. Speaking to his supporters, Albanese said he wanted to "change the way that politics operates in this country" and asserted ...

Earlier this month, elite Sydney private school SCEGGS Darlinghurst became the latest to implement a total mobile phone ban for its students, igniting a discussion around technology's impact on student academic performance and wellbeing. This came weeks after north-Sydney's Shore ...

A new ministerial portfolio and public holiday are part of the push from a Victorian parent advocacy group to help the “most locked down children in the world” recover from the impacts of Covid. Shadow Pandemic group conveners Moran Dvir ...

The NSW government has held its first anti-bullying roundtable to improve schools’ response to youth mental health needs and antisocial behaviour. Led by Education Minister Sarah Mitchell, the meeting was the first of an ongoing series that aims to tackle ...

Some NSW schools will operate outside of the standard 9am to 3pm day as part of a government trial to better support "21st-century families". Starting in Term 3, eight primary and secondary schools will partner with community organisations, sports clubs ...

A throng of teenagers who feel their futures have been “sold out” by politicians that don't do enough to slow climate change marched through Sydney on Friday. The children, many of whom were in uniforms and skipping school to attend ...

School students are refusing to drink or eat during the day to avoid using overcrowded and filthy school toilets, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. A state upper house education committee began its hearings into the planning and delivery of public ...