A multi-million dollar package to address rising teacher supply shortages in Western Australian schools has been labelled “desperate” by the state’s education union. The WA government’s $9.6 million initiative to address teacher shortages would see early-career teachers sent into state ...

An education expert has welcomed NSW Labor's pledge to expand access to co-ed schools, but has called for STEM and literacy classes to be separated by gender.  Earlier this week, state Labor announced plans to expand catchment areas for co-ed ...

Australia’s need for educators has been driven by an interplay of salary, burnout and dissatisfaction, but new research will seek to find answers from a largely overlooked stakeholder - ex-teachers.  Experts from three major universities will survey teachers across the ...

Police have released information about the surprising number of arrests made on the first night of schoolies, as thousands of school leavers descend on the Gold Coast. About 20,000 schoolies are expected attend the first week of celebrations, prompting extra police officers called ...

Australia’s teachers need to do more to protect their LGBTIQA+ students from bullying and harassment, new research says. Researchers from the University of South Australia asked over 400 teachers about how they chose to intervene in bullying incidents against sexually ...

Thousands of school families could be caught up in a terrifying cyber attack on a tech group used by state government departments. PNORS Technology Group, an enterprise used by the Department of Education and Training in Victoria, has been the ...

A private school principal has lost a defamation lawsuit against a high-profile community activist over a Facebook post which she claimed suggested she was covering up alleged child abuse, court documents state. Dubbo’s Central West Leadership Academy principal, Mandi Randell, launched civil proceedings ...

Universities in NSW are set to review how early entry offers are being made to students as schools across the state prepare for final HSC exams. According to the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC), more than 41,000 NSW and ACT Year ...

A former parent of a student at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools says she is “not surprised” by the racist, homophobic and misogynistic group chat that was run by some of its students. Last week, screenshots from a ...

One Nation MLC Mark Latham has accused Education Minister Sarah Mitchell of using “political spin” to glaze over a hotbed issue in a northwestern NSW community. Earlier this month, Mitchell and Latham travelled to Walgett Community College in the state’s ...