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School attendance levels have dipped for another year, with the number of students attending classes falling below pre-Covid-19 levels. Across Australia in 2024, the attendance rate for students in primary and high schools was 88.3 per cent, a slight dip ...

Former NSW education secretary and current University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott has defended spending millions of dollars on contractors to help build schools, amid a corruption inquiry into the man he helped hire to oversee their work. The NSW ...

Sydney’s fastest-growing suburb needs double the number of schools it’s been promised, with the local mayor labelling the state government’s ‘pop-up’ schools a “Band-Aid”. Hill Shire Mayor Michelle Byrne has appealed to the NSW government to build at least three ...

A job listing analysis has found the school principal role is the second-fastest growing high-salary job vacancy in Australia, with a 10 per cent rise in job listings in 2024. Job site Indeed collated the top 25 fastest-growing roles in ...

South Australia Education Minister Blair Boyer has thrown his support behind a school’s decision to allow a transgender student to compete against girls at a sports day. Parents at the private SA Catholic school voiced their concerns after the 13-year-old student ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed Education Minister Jason Clare would stay in his former role when he announced his new cabinet on Monday. Andrew Giles will remain Skills and Training Minister and newcomer to cabinet Jess Walsh will be Early Childhood ...

Public school principals will be offered 10-year contracts and less paperwork as part of a $5m a year government strategy to stop leaders leaving the education system. Recent studies found many principals or senior teachers are overworked, stressed and considering ...

Two prestigious Sydney schools will no longer have co-educational learning at their junior campuses, going against a wave of single-sex colleges shifting towards boys and girls learning together. Kincoppal-Rose Bay, in the eastern suburbs, which is co-ed primary and a ...

Days before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the federal election, the Labor government settled a long-running argument with the states over school funding. This locked in a new 25 per cent–75 per cent split on federal and state funding for ...

A Brisbane high school teacher charged over allegedly grooming a 15-year-old boy has had her charges dropped. Chelsea Jane Edwards, 30, a sports co-ordinator at Indooroopilly State High School at the time she was charged, faced two counts of grooming a child, ...