Former rugby league player and Sydney teacher Chris Dawson will face a murder trial over the disappearance of his wife Lynette later this year after a failed legal bid on Friday. Mr Dawson, 72, has pleaded not guilty to murder after Lynette ...

Attempted suicide rates among Victorian teenagers have skyrocketed by 184 per cent in the past six months. New data from Kids Helpline revealed the shocking statistic after Victoria was plunged into its fourth Covid-19 lockdown. Teenagers aged 13-18 were most ...

A shortage of maths and science teachers at a Queensland high school has exposed the growing crisis facing schools in STEM subject areas. It has also reignited debate among academics and professional bodies about what can be done to attract ...

Outspoken One Nation politician Mark Latham has launched a scathing attack on a task assigned to a Year 8 class in a NSW school. The task is part of the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PHPE) curriculum and asks ...

A plan for age verification on online porn sites is no “silver bullet” and may even expose young people to child pornography on the dark web, Australians have been warned. The federal government has committed “in principle” to implementing age ...

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 ...