Only 57 per cent of Year 6 students and 54 per cent of Year 10 students attained the science proficiency standard in 2023, according to the latest Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) data. The National Assessment Program – ...

Rehiring retired teachers, incentives for regional schools, and taking aim at administration workloads are all part of the eight-point plan to ease the teacher workforce crisis after Queensland’s education experts held a schools summit on Tuesday. The key stakeholders included Education Minister Di Farmer, the ...

A group of 11 education, school parent and medical associations have banded together to call on the government to pass legislation that would ban the sale and supply of recreational vapes. On January 1 this year, the government banned the ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared his support for a petition calling on the government to raise the legal age children are allowed to create social media accounts from 13-years-old to 16. The petition, started by Nova radio presenter Michael ...

Australian students will be taught old-school discipline – including how to line up, keep quiet and be still – in a bid to rid classrooms of the behaviour crisis that sees teachers routinely abused, attacked and children disrupted. The new model of school discipline will ...

A Catholic school principal caught up in a civil sexual abuse claim professed his innocence to staff and students during an assembly address in a move described by some concerned parents as “outrageous” and “inappropriate”. Parents and staff have spoken out following ...

A Gold Coast high school principal who successfully sued parents for defamation after they called her an “evil, nasty, horrible woman” in social media posts has taken leave amid speculation about her future. Long-serving Tamborine Mountain State High principal Tracey ...

Education leaders and maths associations gathered in Adelaide this week to develop a commitment statement and action plan to close the gap in maths education outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. The National Summit on Indigenous Students and Mathematics Education, ...

A new federal vaping prevention program has been rolled out in Australian high schools to curb a worrying rise in vaping among teenagers, after data revealed nearly one in 10 people over the age of 14 used e-cigarettes.  The OurFutures ...

The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) has allowed First Nations children to “set high expectations” of themselves for 15 years, driving up year 12 completion and university rates across the country. Since garnering federal funding under the Rudd government, the ...