A 2023 research report found just under half of Indigenous communities in Australia have no mobile service due to limited communications infrastructure and affordability constraints in rural and remote areas. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) research said 43 per ...

Reports of violence, bullying, and drug taking in South Australian schools have risen to over 10,000 last year. Incidents of violence in school spiked by over 550 to 2915 last year with increasing reports of verbal abuse, intruders on campus, ...

Authors, illustrators and poets featured in this year’s Higher School Certificate (HSC) English exams are to be given additional support following online abuse and trolling from some year 12 students in former years. The 2023 HSC kicked off with written ...

Several Sydney high schools will transition to co-education after community consultation showed strong support for migrating schools away from single-sex education. Randwick Boys and Randwick Girls High School will combine to form a co-ed high school for years 7-12. The ...

High schoolers with smartphone separation anxiety can wave goodbye to playground Snapchats and swimming carnival selfies with a hard-line ban on mobile phones across all public schools starting on the first day of term four. Some schools have forked out ...

Bellbird Park State Secondary College’s (BPSSC) foundation principal has won several elite education awards this year and credits his success to the team he has built around him. Michael West was named government school principal of the year at the ...

The Hume Australian Christian College (ACC) principal shadowed a student around school for a day in September as part of the Shadow a Student Challenge, an international initiative meant to transform school culture through 'deeper learning'. Deeper learning encourages students ...

There has always been respectful debate on whether a child with special needs should attend a mainstream school, a unit within a mainstream school or a school dedicated to special education. We are fortunate in Australia that families have options ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability was unable to agree on an approach to phasing out ‘special schools’ The Commission released its final report on September 29 after four and a half years ...

In the countdown to final exams, an August survey of 1,000 young people found that  year 12 students in Australia are struggling to get a good night's sleep because of exam stress. Of the 500 16 to 25-year-olds who said ...