A Sydney school has been offered antibiotics as a preventive measure following an outbreak of meningococcal disease late last month. NSW Health issued a public health alert about two weeks ago after two cases of meningococcal were recorded in Sydney’s northern beaches ...

A plan for age verification on online porn sites is no “silver bullet” and may even expose young people to child pornography on the dark web, Australians have been warned. The federal government has committed “in principle” to implementing age ...

A new resource promoted by Monash University has been released to make school-policy writing more manageable, especially in these challenging post-COVID times. Titled Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders, the so-called “cheat sheet” ...

The school canteen is a crucial part of any school, particularly for students whose parents do not have the time, ingredients or knowledge to provide their children with healthy meals for the day. But as Australia prepares for this year’s ...

The Gonski Institute for Education at UNSW has released a report calling for the highly controversial National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) to be ditched, not merely redesigned or tweaked. NAPLAN testing, which ended on Thursday and involved ...

Sky News presenter and former teacher Alan Jones has launched a scathing attack on the National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), which commenced this week. Approximately one million students across the country are participating in the test, which ...

The National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has commenced today in Australian classrooms, with approximately one million students across years 3, 5, 7 and 9 expected to sit the test.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the national test ...

A Melbourne primary school has been closed for the day after a suspicious fire destroyed a factory and sent toxic smoking spewing across three suburbs. Students and staff at South Melbourne Primary School have been advised not to attend on Thursday as the large ...

The Respectful Relationships Education pilot program has shown positive results, with students reporting increased wellbeing. The research released today from Our Watch also shows that the Year 1 and 2 students — hailing from 18 schools across Queensland and Victoria ...

Building interpersonal resilience has become a prevalent topic for school leaders in recent months, especially for those desperately trying to support a workforce that is suffering ‘burnout’ at a much higher rate than we have seen previously. Of even greater ...