A Victorian principal who allegedly encouraged students to attend school despite lockdown restrictions has been slammed as “irresponsible”. Visibly angry Education Minister James Merlino tore into Fitzroy Community School principal Timothy Berryman on Tuesday after an outbreak at the independent ...

Former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer has requested not to attend court so she can observe the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. The 54-year-old former principal of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Adass Israel School appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court via ...

Australia’s education minister wants students to learn about Australia’s “great successes” and leave school with a “patriotic view” of the country’s history, as contention over the draft national curriculum heats sup. In a fiery interview with Triple J’s Hack on ...

Pandemic-weary high school students feel so much HSC pressure they are turning to prescription pills to cope with the stress, a medical expert has warned. The HSC is a stressful time in normal years, but the pandemic and the challenges ...

New child sex charges have been laid against a former Adelaide teacher who allegedly procured a child for sex. Former Underdale High School teacher Natalie Linda Zuccon, 36, was arrested in April and first charged with one aggravated count of ...

Victorian officials have revealed an ambitious plan to get the state’s senior students vaccinated within weeks amid a desperate public push for students to go back to school before crucial exams in October. Premier Daniel Andrews on Wednesday announced from ...

Two teenagers from different schools have each allegedly been stabbed with scissors in separate horrifying incidents that left one with injuries to her abdomen and throat. A female student from Avenues College is now in a serious condition. Police were ...

Online learning was thrown into chaos on Monday morning, with technology giant Zoom suffering a widespread outage. Reports to outage website Down Detector spiked from almost zero on Sunday evening to almost 1200 by 9am on Monday. The outage caused ...

A new study by researchers from Europe and the United States has found that where kids sit in a classroom matters. In a field study in Hungarian primary schools, a total of 3,000 students were randomly transferred to almost 200 ...

A former senior teacher at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools has avoided jail for sending sexual messages to who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Alexander David Simpson, who taught at boys’ school Trinity Grammar in the city’s inner west, ...