With more than 140 flood warnings in place across New South Wales and Victoria, an expert has urged teachers and schools to turn to trauma responsive education to better help students respond to the stresses associated with natural disasters.  Deakin ...

Greater recognition of educators in Order of Australia medals and a national campaign to raise the status and value of teachers are among the proposed strategies in the government's plan to fix the education sector. A draft copy of the ...

Top performing teachers in NSW could land a six-figure salary to stay in the classroom under new proposals by the state government. The new policy proposal released on Tuesday would see educators who are assessed as ‘experts’ be rewarded with ...

A private school principal has lost a defamation lawsuit against a high-profile community activist over a Facebook post which she claimed suggested she was covering up alleged child abuse, court documents state. Dubbo’s Central West Leadership Academy principal, Mandi Randell, launched civil proceedings ...

Australian students’ spelling results have shown significant declines in some yearly cohorts, according to this year’s NAPLAN, but overall national performance signalled a stable recovery from Covid-19. More than one million students across the country submitted 4.8 million NAPLAN tests ...

A new report calling for Australia’s schools and universities to remain open during future Covid-19 outbreaks has been critiqued for using “misleading” data. Last Thursday, a six-month independent review into Australia’s Covid-19 response led by Western Sydney University chancellor professor ...

Teachers' job satisfaction has dropped in Australia as educators report feeling disrespected, overworked and unsafe, pushing them to leave the profession in droves, a new report shows.  The Australian Teachers’ Perceptions of their Work Report by Monash University surveyed more ...

The NSW Teachers Federation has been fined $60,000 for "plainly and deliberately" striking while restrained to take industrial action.  On November 29, 2021, the Industrial Relations Commission had issued an order prohibiting the federation and its members from taking industrial ...

Disturbing footage has emerged of students violently brawling inside a Melbourne school, days after the principal warned parents of young gangs in the area. Footage obtained by NCA Newswire shows female students at Alamanda K-9 in Point Cook punching, kicking, tackling and wrestling one ...

Former PM Julia Gillard is set to lead a royal commission into South Australia's early childhood education sector to look at how the state can bring forward access to preschool by one year.  Gillard’s appointment follows a pledge made by ...