NSW public schools will receive a boosted supply of rapid antigen tests and enhanced cleaning and ventilation as students and teachers return to classrooms amid the latest wave of Covid-19. The state government said more than 9 million RAT kits ...

A recent report by Deakin University shows that the use of out-of-field teachers to reduce the current shortages can lower student’s results, sparking concern among students worried about their education and future career outcomes. "When history teachers take over science ...

Teachers should use more simplistic instructions when teaching students with learning and behavioural difficulties, a new study shows. Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology interviewed more than 50 Year 7 to 10 students from three disadvantaged secondary schools to ...

Flash flooding, severe rainfall and long delays at Sydney’s airport have led to a chaotic start to the NSW winter school holidays. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning to the state’s East Coast on Monday, which predicted ...

An upcoming strike planned by NSW public and Catholic school teachers has been labelled “politically motivated” by the state’s education minister. Hundreds of teachers are set to walk off their jobs on Thursday in protest of the government’s revised wages ...

Experts in the early childhood education sector have welcomed the extra year of preschool funding but warned about the need to tackle the workforce crisis in order for the policy to work. In a joint statement earlier this month, the ...

Unvaccinated teachers and other education staff in all east coast states could soon return to work under new mandates proposed last Friday. Victoria and Queensland have both already dropped their requirements for teacher vaccinations to take effect from next week. NSW ...

Australia’s independent online safety regulator received more than 1000 reports of image-based abuse in the first quarter of 2022, compared to just over 600 last year, new figures have revealed. More than 60 per cent of the reports (667) were ...

NSW public and Catholic school teachers will go on 24-hour-strike next week over "crippling" workloads and ongoing wage disputes. The NSW Teachers' Federation (NSWTF) and the NSW branch of the Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) announced teachers will walk ...

NSW and Victoria will transform their early education sectors as part of two billion dollar reform packages set to introduce an extra year of kindergarten. By 2030, children in NSW will attend five days of pre-kindergarten before they start primary ...