Health authorities have revealed three Melbourne schools are on high virus alert as the state’s Covid-19 outbreak worsens. Department of Health testing commander Jeroen Weimar said health authorities were working with three schools: Willmott Park Primary School, Mercy College and Methodist Ladies’ ...

Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ) has welcomed a new bill that will enable teachers to work across borders “more freely”, avoiding much of the red tape involved in transferring registration.  The new bill, recently passed by federal parliament, has been lauded ...

A fiery debate has erupted on the Today show about whether children should be able to take religious weapons to school following a teenager who was allegedly stabbed with a Sikh knife in Sydney. It comes as the NSW Department ...

Sky News presenter and former teacher Alan Jones has launched a scathing attack on the National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), which commenced this week. Approximately one million students across the country are participating in the test, which ...

Following the release of the Climate Council report, climate activist group School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) is deeply concerned about the student health effects of gas heating in schools and the effect of gas use and production on the planet.  ...

A Melbourne primary school has been closed for the day after a suspicious fire destroyed a factory and sent toxic smoking spewing across three suburbs. Students and staff at South Melbourne Primary School have been advised not to attend on Thursday as the large ...

Critics have been quick to voice concerns over the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) releasing its proposed changes to the national curriculum last Thursday.  Among the hundreds of pages of suggestions and recommendations released, education minister Alan Tudge ...

Author James Marsden has often followed the path less travelled. Although he enrolled in university in his early years, it took him longer than expected to graduate, even walking away from tertiary studies several times. “Like many a young person, ...

A NSW Department of Education program that teaches students in Years 3-12 how to combat racism has been slammed by the director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Dr Bella d’Abrera has ...

Plans are afoot to formally teach the Noongar language in Western Australian primary schools alongside Asian and European languages. Noongar is the language of Aboriginal people hailing from WA’s south-east and has been taught in some of the state’s primary ...