Schoolies may be officially cancelled this year because of coronavirus but police are taking no chances with hundreds of officers set to swarm the Gold Coast this weekend. Queensland’s Year 12 students officially finish on Friday and even though there ...

A scholarship program for Indigenous students in NSW will get a cash injection worth $8 million in the upcoming state budget. The new funds for boarding school and tertiary studies scholarship programs run by the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) will be ...

As the NSW government looks to hand down its 2020-21 budget, treasurer Dominic Perrottet has given people a taste of things to come in his pre-budget announcements on Sunday. The budget will be squarely aimed at post-COVID-19 recovery, stimulating the economy ...

NSW services will get a cash boost worth more than $700 million to speed up the state’s transition into the digital age. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said her government would dip into the previously announced $1.6 billion Digital Restart Fund to ...

Australian schools are disproportionately dolling out expulsions and suspensions – and vulnerable student groups are hardest hit, researchers say. After auditing exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools across 2019, University of South Australia researchers found that boys, Indigenous students, ...

A new program will help track suicides in real time, allowing schools, health workers and departments to track any worrying trends. Close to 700 people took their own lives in NSW between January 1 and the end of September this year, ...

A study of more than 10,000 Year 7 Chinese students has concluded that low-performing students negatively affect their peers’ grades in Year 7, but the influence is fleeting and parents shouldn’t panic too early. Not only does the research show ...

“How can it be ethical to teach a program in schools that has not been rigorously evaluated?” This is one of the questions two academics posed as they argued that education research should be held to a higher standard, closer ...

A teenage boy has been arrested over an alleged “copycat” email threat that forced hundreds of students to evacuate a boys’ school in Sydney’s north. The boy is accused of sending a threatening email to North Sydney Boys school just days after dozens of ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) is expecting a record number of students from its postgraduate education program to graduate over the next two years as Australia braces for a looming shortage of teachers. Dr Susan Simon, USC’s deputy ...