Children will be given greater tools to tackle body images issues and live healthier lives under a $3.6m Albanese government election pledge. If re-elected, Labor will invest $3.6m in the next phase of 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt’s ...

A new $100m boarding school fund for remote Indigenous communities will be created if Peter Dutton is elected Prime Minister. Boarding schools are often the only education option for extremely remote Indigenous communities, particularly in Central Australia where schools are just too far away to travel back and ...

Australians will go to the polls this Saturday to choose the next government. The Australian Labor Party, the Liberal-National Coalition and the Australian Greens have a variety of different policies for education in the funding, curriculum and workforce spaces. Who ...

Standing at the front of a particularly challenging Year 4 classroom last year, I felt the familiar signs of overwhelm creeping in. Student voices escalated, transitions between activities became chaotic, and the post-lunch energy surge was threatening to derail our ...

A coalition of 19 disability organisations has called out the government’s delay on “meaningful action” for inclusive education after an alarming new report found a sharp rise in bullying of disabled students. There has been 18 months since the Disability Royal ...

Starting high school is one of the most significant transitions young people make in their education. Many different changes happen at once – from making new friends to getting used to a new school environment and different behaviour and academic ...

Last year alone, more than 75,000 babies were born in the outer metropolitan growth areas of our capital cities. That’s over 40 per cent of all births in Victoria, 54 per cent in Queensland, 55 per cent in Western Australia, ...

Education Minister Jason Clare's seat of Blaxland is considered safe, but the impacts of western Sydney's "melting pot" population on this election remains to be seen. ABC chief election analyst Antony Green says Blaxland is a very safe Labor seat; ...

A Coalition government has pledged $260m to get more high school students to take up trades instead of pursuing university, after the opposition indicated it would cut the Labor’s fee-free TAFE program if it wins government on May 3. The ...

What was once one of the northern beaches’ most neglected public schools is to get another multimillion-dollar boost: Narrabeen Sports High School will receive a 500-seat performing arts hall. NSW Education Minister Prue Car made the announcement at the school on Friday alongside the independent MP for ...