Ongoing instability at Western Australia’s only juvenile detention centre has affected the proper delivery of education services, a report has found. The Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services report, released on Tuesday, found education was “one of the biggest ...

Queensland’s education department says it won’t move to stop a Brisbane school using a gender education resource which encourages students to think of gender as a spectrum rather than a strictly defined binary. Mitchelton State High School has been using ...

“Most importantly this report highlights there is no silver bullet…,” Education Minister Simon Birmingham declared. By this, he meant there is no magic fix-all to the metropolitan/rural education standards gap, as proven by Emeritus Professor Dr John Halsey’s newly-published report ...

Victoria’s education department will overhaul how staff declare conflicts of interest after an investigation into a corrupted tender process. It follows an Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission investigation into corruption, the improper diversion of funds and conflicts of interest related to ...

Australia’s first all-girl robotics team is about to take on the world after scoring a spot to compete on the global stage. The schoolgirls leave for Houston in the United States on Tuesday to compete at an international science and ...

A $23.9 million state budget boost will improve road safety around Victorian schools. The funds will be used to extend the school crossing supervisor program, improve pedestrian crossings, and install electronic variable speed limit signs on high risk roads. “School crossings ...

Positive relationships between children and teachers could be more important than previously thought, a new study has found. The Charles Sturt University study found that close, less-conflicted relationships between young students and teachers could improve language and literacy development as ...

An education expert based in the US has given a scathing review of NAPLAN, labelling it “absurd”, “bizarre” and the worst of a dozen tests he has studied in depth. Les Perelmen, a retired professor from MIT University, reviewed the ...

After falling into teaching when his original career plans stalled, this Adelaide principal set out to make his mark in education. A dynamic, visionary and authentic Catholic school leader who is passionate about leading contemporary educational change, informed by research, ...

A record number of primary and secondary schools have completed White Ribbon Australia’s respectful relationships program, in an effort to prevent domestic violence. A total of 115 schools finished Breaking the Silence – an award-winning professional development program that takes a preventative approach ...