The Australian Financial Review (AFR) has named the principal of a small public primary school in country Victoria among the most powerful people in education in 2023. Jacquie Burrows was a teacher at Churchill Primary School (Churchill) prior to taking ...

The state of Victoria must apologise and pay over $435,000 in compensation for failing to protect five Jewish students from anti-Semitic bullying at a Melbourne state school. The case was brought by former Brighton Secondary College (BSC) students Joel and ...

An Australian Education Union (AEU) 2023 poll found that public school teachers fork out a combined $159.5m a year to buy classroom supplies vital to education due to the underfunding of public schools by governments. The September results said 85 ...

The National School Reform Agreement is made about once every five years in Australia. This is the main way the federal government can steer changes in how Australian schools are run. The current reform agreement ends in December 2024, and ...

Over 20 south coast schools closed on Tuesday ahead of end-of-year exam season after the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued a heatwave warning for NSW on Monday afternoon, as temperatures were not due to fall below 18°C for next three ...

NSW students are increasingly starting kindergarten later compared with a decade ago, according to data from the Department of Education. Many parents are waiting until the year their child turns six before starting kindergarten, with almost 6,000 more children entering ...

Haileybury Rendall School (HRS) in Darwin has received approval from the Northern Territory government to open its virtual classrooms in 2024 – becoming the first private online school in the territory. Haileybury Pangea Online ‘Pangea’ offers access to top-tier schooling ...

A University of Queensland (UQ) first-year student is equipping year 11 and 12 ATAR students with interactive peer-to-peer learning ahead of this year's preliminary and Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) exams. Oliver Barr-David, founder of Queensland Study Hub, has turned ...

Outside school hours care – also known as “school-aged care”, “OOSH” or “afters” – is booming. As of 2020, it was the fastest-growing childcare sector in Australia. As of 2022, it catered to 486,310 primary school children. Enrolments have surged ...

Marble Bar Primary School in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is a small school that's winning major global awards for its innovative virtual world experiences and two-way pedagogical approach to STEM disciplines. Marble Bar currently has 13 primary and ...