Students with dismally poor high school results are being accepted into university teaching courses, setting off alarm bells about the quality of some Australian educators. The university sector, however, says low scores don’t tell a student’s full story and only ...

A group of Australian students has used technology to ‘e-meet’ a girl who fled war-torn South Sudan with her siblings after rebels shot dead their father. Five teenagers at Melbourne Girls College, in years eight to 10, live-streamed with Lilias, ...

Victoria’s public school cleaning contracts will be audited amid claims workers are worse off despite a sector overhaul, Education Minister James Merlino says. Merlino announced the audit on Wednesday in response to reports that Victoria’s new model for contract allocation ...

Parents and teachers will be able to compare the standardised NAPLAN test results of students who took the exams online with those who used traditional pen and paper. The national assessment body says its data analysts have confirmed the two ...

We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to ...

Japanese high school students have produced a five-minute virtual reality experience that recreates the sights and sounds of Hiroshima immediately before, during and after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city 73 years ago. By transporting users back ...

Veteran traveller Michael Palin says books and maps were always interesting to him when he was young but it was going on school excursions that really fired up his interest in the world. The writer, broadcaster, actor and former president of the ...

Labor has jumped on a potential deal to restore $1.7 billion in funding for Catholic schools as a “humiliating admission” the schools funding system is broken. The sector campaigned hard against the new funding policy in the Queensland seat of ...

Three young men have been charged over a suspicious fire that caused $10 million worth of damage at a historic western Sydney school earlier this year. NSW Police have been searching for the arsonists since May following the deliberately lit ...

School’s out for summer School’s out forever For an increasing number of Australian high schoolers, Alice Cooper’s lyrics resonate. They especially do so with 15-year-olds from lower SES backgrounds, according to a new ACER report. Based on PISA data, the report collated ...