A visually compelling environment is considered essential to happy learning; no-one wants their child to be taught in a shabby and cluttered classroom. Yet, with kids spending half of their classroom time listening to the teacher, little attention has been ...

2016 John Laing award recipient Pitsa Binnion shares her inspiration and vision for successful school leadership. Pitsa Binnion always wanted to be a teacher but never thought about being a principal. She was inspired by her Year 11 geography teacher, ...

Construction has begun on Melbourne’s first high-rise school, continuing an Australian trend that began in Sydney of schools gracing city skylines. Richmond High School on Highett Street, which will educate 650 students, is set to be operational by 2018. The ...

Federal funding for the Islamic College of South Australia will be cut from 13 April 2017 for failing to comply with governance regulations. Federal education minister Simon Birmingham said school management had failed to meet the “strict conditions” imposed on ...

One principal’s passion for teaching has yielded a fulfilling career of helping others to achieve. Frank Ali did not begin his career as a teacher, though he completed his studies to become one in the 1970s. Instead, he entered the ...

Ophthalmologists are calling on parents to ensure their children’s eyes are properly protected while they’re at school, and for schools to help out. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists has issued a statement saying that schools should ...

Sydney’s Malek Fahd Islamic School will continue the fight for public funding, with its management now intending to lodge an appeal to the Federal Court. On December 23 2016, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) upheld the federal Education Department’s decision to ...

Australia’s largest Islamic school will have its $19 million in annual federal funding cut, following a decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Explaining the decision, Bernard McCabe, AAT deputy president, said he was not satisfied that Malek Fahd Islamic ...

From catering for students seeking all levels of qualifications to a focus on wellbeing for the entire community, Aranmore Catholic’s principal wants to help everybody succeed. Each school day, between 30 and 50 young people eat at the Breakfast Club ...

Collaboration was key for Hayball Architects' Lisa Horton’s design for blending together schools. Melbourne’s Dandenong High School is an amalgamation of three existing schools. It has to cater for more than 2100 students. Horton said the successful design was a direct result of a 10-year collaboration ...