As another bushfire season comes to a close, emergency services are urging schools not to neglect their fire safety knowledge. A number of schools across the country closed during the September to April fire season, some in NSW and Queensland ...

Liverpool West Public School reopened on Monday after bonded asbestos that was found in its garden mulch in February was removed. Teachers and students were able to return to school after the asbestos-contaminated mulch was cleared and an independent hygienist ...

If there is a one-word answer to the often-posed question, 'What is the one thing that’s most different about the Finnish system?', it is trust. As I led a tour group through Finnish schools, a number of the group were ...

The government has allocated an extra $7.9 million to expand an expert-led teacher training program to NSW primary schools The Nexus primary pilot program, run by La Trobe University, will send 105 aspiring teachers to schools in NSW and Victoria ...

When the pandemic caused the shutdown of society, and schools, practically overnight, many teachers were scrambling to work out how to keep their students engaged with their classwork. During a very stressful time for society, teachers had to adjust to ...

Government funding to Australian private schools has increased at almost twice the rate of funding to public schools since Gonski, new curriculum data shows. According to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority data seen by the Guardian, 98 per cent ...

Teachers, school counsellors, teaching assistants, and education staff members care deeply about the students they work with on a daily basis. The past few years have brought many different kinds of trauma to our students and to us personally. The ...

More students in Australia are experiencing poor mental health and concentration issues during highly stressful periods like the HSC, new data shows. Figures released by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) show that 6924 Australian students received extra support during ...

Teachers, principals and key education figures will meet with federal education minister Jason Clare on Friday in Canberra to negotiate the upcoming National School Reform Agreement (NSRA). The meeting comes after the federal education department released a consultation paper that ...

Parents of students from a group of West Australian Anglican schools have been told they could be banned or their children could be expelled for breaches of a strict new code of conduct. The rules have been rolled out by the West ...