One-in-three public school students in NSW and Victoria have experienced racist bullying at the hands of their peers, an Australian university study has found. The study of 4,600 primary and secondary students was undertaken at public schools with higher indigenous ...

It’s an alarming statistic that educator Stephanie Wescott now belongs to: leaving the teaching profession after just five years of practice. In a wide-ranging interview in The Age, which covered everything from teachers not “being trusted to do their work” ...

“A salad sandwich with no butter.” For students who have cut animal products out of their diet, this might be their only option at the school canteen come lunch time. A motion by the Australian Greens sought to expand food ...

Some students might bemoan putting on the same shirt and pant combo every day to match their peers, while for others it might mean less stress that morning. The Conversation’s section editor for education Sasha Petrova asked five Australian academics ...

School students around Australia are giving feedback to their teachers in the form of emojis. Classrooms are introducing the Student Feedback tool, which helps teachers poll how students are feeling, whether they’re keeping up with the lesson or if they ...

To give younger Australians a fair go, governments need to wind back age-based tax breaks for ‘comfortably off’ older adults. That’s according to the Grattan Institute’s new report. It revealed that older Australians today spend more and have higher incomes ...

A former NSW Crown Prosecutor has wrapped up his review of the state’s Department of Education Employee Performance and Conduct directorate (EPAC) – and confirmed “substantial flaws” in its investigations. EPAC was charged with investigating misconduct by Department employees and ...

Dr Melissa Cain and Melissa Fanshawe have a lot in common. They share a first name, are both university researchers and are mothers to 12-year old sons. But most remarkably, both of their sons have been diagnosed with the same ...

The latest Grattan Institute report found that men who scored lower ATARs at school but gained vocational qualifications in engineering, construction and commerce could have higher average earnings than if they had instead pursued a degree qualification. Uni at all cost? The ...

Parental licensing has long been mulled over by academic philosophers and political scientists, but a social work researcher says the idea is fraught with problems. James Cook University’s Dr Frank Ainsworth reviewed international studies on parental licensing – the idea ...