The number of Australian students being homeschooled has climbed to a new record of more than 45,000. Numbers exploded over the course of the pandemic and have tipped over the 45,000 mark to 45,858, even with some states still to ...

A survey of family lawyers has found that the location and fees of a school are the most litigated matters in family court cases across the country. Conducted by Australian Family Lawyers it found it is not uncommon for parents ...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Education at a Glance report found Australia spends over double the average on private schools, and that although teacher pay is higher than other OECD countries, educators work about 100 hours more ...

Children under the age of 14 will be banned from using social media, and companies could face million-dollar fines if children create accounts, under a new proposal that could be rolled out across Australia. Under the plan, children under 14 will be banned from signing ...

This year's National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results, released on Wednesday by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), show stability in Australian students' literacy and numeracy performance. These results are the second year of a ...

Voices advocating for students from rural and remote areas of Australia are calling for more support from airlines whose services those students and parents depend on to get to and from boarding school, often the only secondary schooling option available ...

Australia’s richest schools of 2024 have been revealed, with the top five in several states exposing a major wealth divide between public and private schools. In analysis of financial data from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA) MySchool ...

Vapes will be made available at pharmacies without a prescription after the Albanese government backtracked on its plan to ban the commercial sale of e-cigarettes so it could strike a deal with the Greens. Health Minister Mark Butler secured support on ...

A Victorian school community is reeling after fake, sexually explicit images of female students were generated using artificial intelligence and then shared on social media. About 50 high school students at Bacchus Marsh Grammar had their images altered. A teenage ...

Two public high schools in Sydney’s south west could be demolished and replaced with a forecasted $150m coeducation campus with capacity for 2000 students following a push for families to access mixed-gender education by the state government. The NSW Department ...