Queensland health officials are expected to meet with consumer goods giant Unilever and retailers in an attempt to put an end to children and teens who inhale dangerous household chemicals to get high. Almost a hundred Queensland children, many of ...

A female teacher who fell asleep in a drunken stupor in a Year 2 classroom and failed to notice a student being punched has been suspended from teaching in Queensland. In 2016, the teacher took Valium before a Year 2 ...

A major story that emerged today appeared in The Age and is related to an earlier story we wrote on a maths teacher shortage in Australia. According to the article, far too many secondary school teachers who are unqualified to ...

Teachers prepared to move to difficult Melbourne schools will be wooed with a $50,000 bonus and another $9000 a year if they stay on for three years. It’s a scheme mirroring one announced by the Victorian government earlier this year ...

Teaching is a demanding and often thankless profession. I should know, after spending roughly six years working in secondary schools in the Northern Territory. It’s not a ‘9 to 5’ job that you can leave behind at the front gate ...

A school crossing guard severely burned in a gas explosion at a Sydney Islamic school has been awarded more than $3 million in damages. Delwar Hossain, then 50, had on the morning of February 10, 2010, completed ‘lollipop man’ work ...

A new report is proposing a rethink on how educators approach senior schooling and tertiary education, and calls ­for the ATAR to be replaced with a more comprehensive “learning profile”. The Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) position paper, titled Beyond ATAR: ...

Commencing at the Domain in Sydney’s CBD, the school-day Climate Strike 4 Action protest attracted an estimated 80,000, while Melbourne drew an even larger crowd of 100,000. Indeed, protesters from over 100 cities and towns across Australia took part in ...

A California businessman has been sentenced to four months in prison for paying bribes to get his son into a prestigious university, the second parent jailed in a US college admissions cheating scandal. A Boston judge also ordered Devin Sloane, ...

You would have to be profoundly deaf, blind or unobservant not to realise that something big was happening around Sydney’s CBD last Friday. Scores of students, still dutifully dressed in their school uniforms, started to snake their way through the ...