Child protection in NSW is inadequate, the state's Ombudsman has said. A report sent to state parliament on Tuesday has identified serious concerns about the capacity of the child protection system to keep children safe from harm, Ombudsman Bruce Barbour ...

Thousands of NSW teachers will walk off the job next week to protest against the state's unpopular public-sector wage restrictions, in a strike labelled "extreme" by Treasurer Mike Baird. The NSW Teachers' Federation has directed its 70,000 members to stop ...

Ahead of the end-of-year deadline to provide the federal government with its final report, the school funding review panel has released new research into the current system, as well as potential alternatives. The panel, chaired by businessman David Gonski, released ...

An opposition motion demanding the federal government maintain private school funding levels, which passed through Parliament last week, has been branded as outrageous in light of the coalition's planned education cuts. The opposition last Thursday passed the motion on private ...

Thousands of children are going hungry and living rough in NSW, research has found. A report by the NSW Commission for Children and Young People has assembled data on the lives of the 1.6 million kids in the state. It ...

West Australian teachers have rejected a 12 per cent pay rise that would make them the highest paid in Australia because the government wants to have a separate agreement for administrators. On Tuesday Premier Colin Barnett told reporters he was ...

A pilot program that will move Year 7 classes into Queensland secondary schools has received almost three times the number of applicants than was needed. The government announced in June that it would move Year 7 to high schools by ...

Australian education providers should invest in the Asia-Pacific region to stop marginalised youth turning to terrorism, a leading philanthropist says. Ron Bruder, who founded a network of non-profit groups that train unemployed youth in the Middle East and Africa, says ...

Rates of child abuse and imprisonment among adults have increased, a national report into Aboriginal disadvantage has found. The fifth Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report, released today, was prepared for the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) and tracks how governments are ...

A Bill removing the January 2012 national curriculum start date for non-government schools passed the lower house yesterday evening. The government said this would ensure the implementation of the national curriculum is the same for both government and non-government schools. ...