Scholarships making elite private schools affordable for thousands of students will be under threat if a proposed donation tax goes through, a key lobby group says. Since 1954, contributions to school buildings by parents carry a “DGR” or deductible gift recipient status ...

Aussies love a good competition – seeing where our team ranks is one of the mainstays of our passion for many sports, indicating who is currently the best and who is at the bottom of the pile. So why shouldn’t ...

The NSW Department of Education has partnered with Microsoft to develop a generative AI app, custom built for the NSW education system for teachers and students in Year 5 and up after ChatGPT was banned last year. NSWEduChat offers the ...

As we stand at the threshold of 2024, the Australian education sector finds itself at a critical juncture. We have the opportunity to solve persistent workforce challenges using contemporary and transformative organisational strategy and design processes, or the choice to ...

A new South Australian outside school hours care (OSHC) TAFE course should lead to carers getting paid more – but it won’t be compulsory for OSHC workers to do it. The Certificate III in Outside School Hours Care is set to be offered from ...

A kindergarten to year 12 education at one of Sydney's private girls' schools costs $587,975 after fees increased this year, making it the most expensive school in the country. Rose Bay school Kambala also increased its year nine tuition to ...

Police were called to schools across NSW almost 20,000 times in the year to November 2023, including for serious sexual incidents and violence involving pistols and swords. The rising tide of school violence in the state has been laid bare in ...

The NSW Department of Education closed 19 schools in central and Western NSW last Friday due to extreme fire danger weather and record-breaking temperatures. Temperatures in Western NSW soared to 40 degrees Celsius on Friday and Saturday, accompanied by hot ...

Awareness enterprise Epilepsy Smart Schools is calling for mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and schools to avoid 'adverse educational outcomes', which they say can include early school leaving, unemployment, and poverty in adulthood for children with the disorder. Schools are ...

The 2008 Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians, which was signed by all Australian education ministers at the time, stated that “as a nation, Australia values the central role of building a democratic, equitable and just society – ...