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Australia’s teachers need to do more to protect their LGBTIQA+ students from bullying and harassment, new research says. Researchers from the University of South Australia asked over 400 teachers about how they chose to intervene in bullying incidents against sexually ...

Thousands of school families could be caught up in a terrifying cyber attack on a tech group used by state government departments. PNORS Technology Group, an enterprise used by the Department of Education and Training in Victoria, has been the ...

Greater recognition of educators in Order of Australia medals and a national campaign to raise the status and value of teachers are among the proposed strategies in the government's plan to fix the education sector. A draft copy of the ...

A private school principal has lost a defamation lawsuit against a high-profile community activist over a Facebook post which she claimed suggested she was covering up alleged child abuse, court documents state. Dubbo’s Central West Leadership Academy principal, Mandi Randell, launched civil proceedings ...

Australian students’ spelling results have shown significant declines in some yearly cohorts, according to this year’s NAPLAN, but overall national performance signalled a stable recovery from Covid-19. More than one million students across the country submitted 4.8 million NAPLAN tests ...

A new report calling for Australia’s schools and universities to remain open during future Covid-19 outbreaks has been critiqued for using “misleading” data. Last Thursday, a six-month independent review into Australia’s Covid-19 response led by Western Sydney University chancellor professor ...

Universities in NSW are set to review how early entry offers are being made to students as schools across the state prepare for final HSC exams. According to the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC), more than 41,000 NSW and ACT Year ...

Australian students' academic results have "stagnated" over the past decade despite a billion-dollar injection of additional funding into schools, according to the Productivity Commission. The Commission's latest interim report, published last week, found nearly one in ten Year 9 students ...

A former parent of a student at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools says she is “not surprised” by the racist, homophobic and misogynistic group chat that was run by some of its students. Last week, screenshots from a ...

One Nation MLC Mark Latham has accused Education Minister Sarah Mitchell of using “political spin” to glaze over a hotbed issue in a northwestern NSW community. Earlier this month, Mitchell and Latham travelled to Walgett Community College in the state’s ...