While curriculum reviews have always been debated, the release this month of the Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education has been welcomed as offering “a way forward for Australian society”. The guide has been edited by Professor Mohamad Abdalla and Dr Nadeem ...

A primary school student in western Sydney has been suspended after being found with a knife in her bag, the NSW Department of Education has confirmed. The incident occurred at Kingswood South Public School, near Penrith, last week. The Department of Education ...

A family is devastated after a little boy drowned while on school camp in southwest Victoria last week. Cooper Onyett died at the Belfast Aquatics pool in Port Fairy on Friday at his first overnight school camp. A GoFundMe page set up after the eight-year-old’s death ...

A new resource promoted by Monash University has been released to make school-policy writing more manageable, especially in these challenging post-COVID times. Titled Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders, the so-called “cheat sheet” ...

A casual schoolteacher has been charged after allegedly sexually touching a student in Sydney’s southwest last year. Child abuse detectives launched an investigation in September after receiving reports an 11-year-old female student had been allegedly sexually touched by a male teacher while on ...

The school canteen is a crucial part of any school, particularly for students whose parents do not have the time, ingredients or knowledge to provide their children with healthy meals for the day. But as Australia prepares for this year’s ...

New research has revealed that teachers on short-term contracts are experiencing poorer job quality and feel under constant pressure to compete with colleagues to maintain employment. The study, which was led by UNSW Sydney, was also co-authored by education experts ...

The Gonski Institute for Education at UNSW has released a report calling for the highly controversial National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) to be ditched, not merely redesigned or tweaked. NAPLAN testing, which ended on Thursday and involved ...

About $40 million of South Australian taxpayer funds have been spent on public servant workplace harassment payouts over the past five years. The figures — obtained by political party SA-BEST and released by the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment — ...

The National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has commenced today in Australian classrooms, with approximately one million students across years 3, 5, 7 and 9 expected to sit the test.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the national test ...