Hackers have stolen student information from a Melbourne high school, posting it online and sending emails to parents pretending to be from the principal. The Victorian Education Department is working with police to identify hackers who illegally downloaded information from ...

Sixteen-year-old Mountain Creek State High School student Samara Welbourne is combining her love of books and Bali to lead a $20,000 project to build a library in Bungaya, a rural community on the island popular with Australian tourists. Welbourne started learning ...

The federal government has no plans to directly fund individual Catholic schools despite data showing needy schools are being short-changed up to $1.5 million a year to keep fees low in wealthy areas. Education minister Simon Birmingham said the government ...

A senior Turnbull minister has blasted Catholic schools for running a “dishonest” campaign against the federal government’s new school funding plans. And an education policy expert has accused the sector of cherrypicking examples that don’t show the reality for most Catholic ...

We’re not soft enough. That is, when it comes to our skills. That’s the conclusion of a report by Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by DeakinCo, a workforce professional development provider. The report, Soft Skills for Business Success, found that demand ...

School funding legislation has barely cooled from the printer and already both major parties are wooing Senate crossbenchers in bids to either pass or halt it. The Turnbull government says its plan will pump another $18.6 billion into the nation’s ...

Nearly two-thirds of children with a food allergy will have outgrown it by age four, Australian research has found. But the prevalence of food allergies among Australian children is still remarkably high compared to other countries. The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute ...

As the nation’s politicians restart arguments over school funding and count Senate votes, principals are wondering what will happen to their budgets and students. The federal government says it will add $18.6 billion funding over the next decade, moving every ...

Education ministers will discuss school funding for the first time since the federal government put out a concrete plan for what it will contribute. But briefing documents for the meeting show the Commonwealth and states won’t sign a new agreement on ...

Teenagers feeling misunderstood by adults and peers isn’t unique to any generation but in the era of social media it’s an unavoidable problem. Gone are the days where leaving school for the day put you out of reach of the ...