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 ...

Early NAPLAN results have been delayed this year due to “unprecedented” rates of student absences caused by COVID-19, floods and the flu. The 2022 NAPLAN tests marked the final year of transition to online testing, with 4.3 million tests submitted ...

A large number of Australian adults are struggling with basic literacy skills, new research has revealed, with most agreeing that technology could have helped them overcome reading and writing difficulties while at school. Global technology education company Texthelp commissioned a ...

The Department of Education has revealed an investigation is still ongoing into how a radioactive rock ended up inside a high school science classroom in Sydney. In a letter sent out on August 18, Randwick Girls’ High School principal Lucy ...

A teenager from regional NSW who was bullied with homophobic taunts has been found not guilty of conspiring to murder his schoolmates after a judge found his disturbing diary entries were merely a window into his torment. The teenager, who ...

New research has detailed the health and safety impacts of period poverty on Australian high school students, with more than 60 per cent of teenagers reporting a lack of access to sanitary products. A joint report from the Queensland University ...

Children who learn more new words before entering preschool are more likely to positively engage with others during their early education, new research has shown.  Using data from 895 four-year-olds, Ohio State University researchers examined kid’s vocabulary skills at the ...

Teachers are demoralised because of the hours of “pointless busy work” they‘re expected to perform each week, an inquiry has heard. A team of academics, which has looked into the problem of teacher shortages in Australia, presented their research findings ...

Australia’s education ministers will draft a national plan by December to address chronic teacher shortages and rife dissatisfaction plaguing the teaching profession.  A roundtable meeting held last Friday saw key stakeholders, including unions, academics and principals, meet with the nation’s ...

Australia's federal and state education ministers, along with union leaders, principals and teachers, are due to meet today in Canberra to brainstorm ways to tackle nationwide teacher shortages. The roundtable marks the first time the nation's education leaders have met ...