About one in five Australian parents threaten to smack, hit or spank their kids when they misbehave, according to a new report. Up to 23 per cent of parents threatened to physically discipline their children if they’ve been badly behaved, ...

Police in northern California say they are investigating a report that a high school student mixed her cremated grandfather’s ashes into homemade biscuits and shared them with several classmates. Davis Police Lt Paul Doroshov on Wednesday said two students baked ...

Laws protecting gay teachers from discrimination at religious schools will have to wait despite pressure from Labor and some Liberals to bring them in now. Instead, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government is immediately focused on protecting gay students ...

It’s the question just about every maths teacher will hear multiple times a year – ‘Will we even use this in real life?’ – but a new course might help nip it in the bud. The NSW Government has announced ...

Letting kids find their own way to school, rather than dropping them off by car, is good way to keep them active, researchers have reminded parents. Their VicHealth research analysed travel data from more than 1000 primary school families who ...

A long-awaited review into religious freedoms in Australia does not recommend any changes to the basis on which faith-based schools can reject students or teachers, the attorney-general has confirmed. Some states – but not all – already allow schools to ...

Thousands of extra teachers will get jobs in Australia’s public schools as part of a $14 billion, 10-year education plan if Labor wins the next federal election. Labor said the funding pledge restores all the money the coalition took out ...

Undecided voters in some marginal electorates aren’t too pleased with Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s private school funding deal if new union figures are to go by. The Australian Education Union’s (AEU) Reachtel poll of 1261 residents, conducted on 27 September, ...

The NSW government plans to amend the law to make it clear that people who stalk or intimidate others online or via text message can be jailed for up to five years. The proposed amendments would also allow NSW Police ...

A bookish adolescent who ended school at year 9 but grew up in a home with large library is likely to be just as literate as a university graduate whose home lacked books. That’s according to a new study that ...