All in all, Australians are pretty happy with the state of classroom education. Despite a hefty amount of negative media attention, a new nation-wide survey of 2052 adults has revealed that Australians are largely positive about the level of education ...

A national academy to provide specialist leadership training for school principals will be set up if Labor wins the next federal election. A recent review found high performing school leaders add between two and seven months’ worth of growth in ...

Two dedicated mental health staff will be sent to every public high school in NSW under a state government plan to help young people struggling with bullying and stress. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is today expected to announce a multi-million ...

A Labor federal government would offer Australia’s “best and brightest” tax-free bursaries of $40,000 to become teachers. Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek announced the plan this morning, saying a career in teaching should be a first choice rather than a ...

Indigenous Australians will play a greater role in efforts to close the health and education gap. Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered the 11th annual Closing the Gap report in Canberra on Thursday, calling for a new approach to targets that ...

LGBT+ students and their supporters are urging parliament not to forget about them and protecting their rights to stay in the school they want to attend. A group of young people delivered a petition to federal parliament on Wednesday with ...

A world-first training program to educate young people with Down syndrome and help them to find meaningful employment has been launched by a Melbourne charity. Thirteen students, aged 22 to 35, will take part in the work-readiness pilot Impact21, which ...

Employees looking to get a better night’s sleep and feel more productive the next day at work should turn to after-work activities like reading, going to the gym or volunteering, a new study suggests. The research, published in the Journal ...

Launceston mum Georgina Schilg used to worry that teachers would mistake her daughter’s epileptic seizures for her not listening. But not any more. Schilg knows that 10-year-old Sophie’s teachers are able to recognise her daughter’s symptoms and call her, or ...

A young boy who was reported missing from a primary school in Sydney’s northwest, sparking a police land and air search, has been “accounted for”. The boy, aged between five and seven, was reported missing after he was seeing leaving ...