A new study has revealed grim new e-cigarette usage among teens, with more than 80 per cent of teachers reporting at least some of their high-school students vaping. The study, published in the Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health on Thursday, surveyed almost ...

NSW public schools will receive a boosted supply of rapid antigen tests and enhanced cleaning and ventilation as students and teachers return to classrooms amid the latest wave of Covid-19. The state government said more than 9 million RAT kits ...

Some of the most expensive NSW private schools have been overfunded by the state government to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, leaving public schools ten per cent below their specified funding level, a new report has claimed.   ...

Teachers feel ‘immense pressure’ juggling the curriculum and wish to run more classes outside in nature, a new study has shown.  Researchers from South Australia interviewed a dozen primary school teachers and principals about their experiences with outdoor learning.  The ...

An upcoming strike planned by NSW public and Catholic school teachers has been labelled “politically motivated” by the state’s education minister. Hundreds of teachers are set to walk off their jobs on Thursday in protest of the government’s revised wages ...

Unvaccinated teachers and other education staff in all east coast states could soon return to work under new mandates proposed last Friday. Victoria and Queensland have both already dropped their requirements for teacher vaccinations to take effect from next week. NSW ...

Australia’s independent online safety regulator received more than 1000 reports of image-based abuse in the first quarter of 2022, compared to just over 600 last year, new figures have revealed. More than 60 per cent of the reports (667) were ...

NSW public and Catholic school teachers will go on 24-hour-strike next week over "crippling" workloads and ongoing wage disputes. The NSW Teachers' Federation (NSWTF) and the NSW branch of the Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) announced teachers will walk ...

NSW and Victoria will transform their early education sectors as part of two billion dollar reform packages set to introduce an extra year of kindergarten. By 2030, children in NSW will attend five days of pre-kindergarten before they start primary ...

The Albanese Labor government is moving to remove the compulsory religious element of the national school chaplaincy program. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said the major change was aimed at giving schools greater choice around pastoral care. The voluntary scheme ...