Victoria’s public service workers will be offered pay increases above inflation as counterparts in other states battle for a boost equal to the climbing cost of living. Earlier this year, treasurer Tim Pallas warned of a 2 per cent pay ...

Teachers are considering leaving the profession over the bullying they cop, so experts have floated a possible partial solution to the problem: a mandatory code of conduct for parents and students. Their study found a vast majority (80 per cent) of teachers ...

Harnessing the rebellious streak among teenagers may help efforts to get youngsters to cut down on junk food, a study suggests. Researchers in the United States reported that altering the way teenagers see adverts for fast food companies can lead ...

More than two thirds of parents feel financial pressure when paying schools fees. Overall, 68 per cent of parents feel either a little or a lot of financial pressure to pay for school fees. This figure rose to 80 per ...

The incoming federal government should scrap a fund set up as a sweetener for private schools as part of a bid to make a final fix to education funding. Leading think tank the Grattan Institute said the biggest thing the ...

While there is a generally accurate perception that tertiary qualifications will earn you a higher income in the long run when compared with higher-level vocational training, the reverse is true when it comes to careers in STEM, according to new research. ...

Researchers have tracked a significant decline in reading scores among children in their early years of school. The QUT team analysed word-level reading trajectories of a group of more than 100 students from grades one to three and found children ...

Teachers just want teachable kids but parents focus more on literacy in the lead-up to children starting school. That was one of the key disconnects between the groups unearthed by new research. The study explored how parents are preparing children ...

US prosecutors have filed fresh conspiracy and money laundering charges against 16 parents charged with paying bribes to secure places for their children in elite universities. It was the largest college admissions scam uncovered in US history. Parents, including Full ...

The NAPLAN report card has been published and it confirms the findings of the snapshot released in August last year. While there were no statistically significant changes in any of the NAPLAN test domains when compared with 2017 results, ACARA ...