A highly anticipated report from a government advisory group has called for sweeping changes to the way teachers are trained, including an overhaul of the way universities select students for teaching courses. The report, Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers, was ...

Students of radicals are a fresh hurdle for Victorian schools, the state's peak principals body says. Tensions born out of racism, conflicting religious beliefs, and even uniforms, have affected social cohesion at some institutions, the Australian Principals Federation stated. And now Fairfax ...

A Queensland principal failed to deal appropriately with a pedophile teacher who sexually abused 13 schoolgirls, a report has found. Terence Hayes didn't report two allegations of sexual abuse against teacher Gerard Byrnes in 2007, despite having clear instructions to ...

Victorian parents pay more than the rest of the country for their kids' public schools, an auditor-general's report shows. The state government also spent less than the national average per student – 14.4 per cent less for primary students and 11.4 ...

Schools in NSW will get an extra $22.7 million of Commonwealth cash this year in a deal the federal education minister, Christopher Pyne, has said will increase their autonomy. But the agreement won't lead to independent public schools. The NSW education minister, ...

  A robot that children can teach to write has landed a Queensland University of Technology graduate a top international artificial intelligence industry award. Deanna Hood has been developing the capacity of a programmable humanoid robot to learn to write ...

Children can report cyber-predators anonymously through a new online program police and child protection advocates have developed. Join the Dots was launched in Brisbane on Tuesday as part of International Safer Internet Day. The reporting tool has been developed by Task ...

A teenage boy stabbed in the neck by a classmate a day after a fight over sweets was a bully, a court has been told. The accused, who was 14 at the time of the stabbing in August 2013, has ...

Early childhood education, teacher training and demonstrating the quality of government schools should be primary concerns for the year. By Field Rickards My colleague professor Linda Darling-Hammond, from Stanford University, likes to tell a story – albeit mock-grudgingly, as it ...

The education minister, Christopher Pyne, said on Friday he can't rule out a party room spill next week on Prime Minister Tony Abbott's leadership. Pyne was responding to a Sky News report three ministers believe there will be a vote ...