Zero-tolerance policies on drugs are common; is there ever a time to cut a student some slack? Although schools generally have extensive policies and procedures to guide students and teachers who face ethical dilemmas, there are times when we might ...

A South Australian childcare centre is calling on the state government to fund a child abuse education and prevention program to help "unclog" the state's child protection system. Natasha O'Brien, the owner of O'Brien's Montessori Centre in north-east Adelaide, says ...

A sacked Geelong Grammar School teacher accused of sexual abuse was later employed as an emergency teacher and allowed to take boys away for a weekend trip, the child abuse royal commission has heard. A former student, BKV, alleges that ...

A study of primary school students with hearing loss has shown children with double cochlear implants performed much better in exams than kids with only one. The University of Melbourne study measured academic performance of 44 profoundly deaf 8-year-olds across Australia ...

No one has the time anymore to endlessly search the internet, teacher networks or the library to put together a definitive list of quality Australian literature suited to the classroom. Online site Reading Australia, however, places educators one click away from being able to teach the best ...

Now that Cuba has restored diplomatic ties with the US, teaching English in schools will be a priority there, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma reports. In the 1970s, the study of English in Cuban schools was supplanted by Russian, ...

The NSW education minister, Adrian Piccoli, has refused to reveal how much his government plans to spend launching a controversial computer system that's already cost taxpayers more than half a billion dollars. Piccoli fronted a budget estimates hearing at NSW ...

About 10 school children have been stopped from going through with plans to travel to the Middle East to join extremist groups. Australian Federal Police commissioner Andrew Colvin says the youngsters have been stopped before getting to the point of ...

A crowd has protested outside a Sydney newspaper office against an article they say led to the NSW government cancelling school screenings of a documentary about same-sex families. The Daily Telegraph reported last week that a planned screening at Burwood ...

A South Australian Government grant has opened the doors for Flinders University to design a postgraduate course for teachers about instructing children with autism. Dr Susan Close, the SA minister for education and child development, announced the course. It follows ...