The federal government has committed $10.8m to a free voluntary ‘phonics health check’, with this year’s recent NAPLAN results revealing a third of year three students aren’t meeting minimum expectations for reading. The phonics health check is a seven-minute assessment ...

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) has named the principal of a small public primary school in country Victoria among the most powerful people in education in 2023. Jacquie Burrows was a teacher at Churchill Primary School (Churchill) prior to taking ...

The state of Victoria must apologise and pay over $435,000 in compensation for failing to protect five Jewish students from anti-Semitic bullying at a Melbourne state school. The case was brought by former Brighton Secondary College (BSC) students Joel and ...

An Australian Education Union (AEU) 2023 poll found that public school teachers fork out a combined $159.5m a year to buy classroom supplies vital to education due to the underfunding of public schools by governments. The September results said 85 ...

The National School Reform Agreement is made about once every five years in Australia. This is the main way the federal government can steer changes in how Australian schools are run. The current reform agreement ends in December 2024, and ...

A new policy from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), effective from November 1, aims to lessen administrative workloads for NSW teachers by scrapping principal signatures on accreditation renewal paperwork. Teachers are still required to complete 100 hours of professional ...

Department for Education South Australia's chief Professor Martin Westwell has spoken out about the notable increase in racism towards teaching staff in the lead up to the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum on October 14. Mr Westwell wrote an open ...

Co-design is the new buzz word being applied to relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. It has been used as a key part of the Indigenous Voice process. But it is also talked about when it comes to health policy ...

The Minns government's first NSW state budget released on Tuesday put essential workers at its forefront, allocating $9.8 billion to the public education system to focus on upgrading schools and getting rid of the wages cap to tackle the understaffed ...

Over 20 south coast schools closed on Tuesday ahead of end-of-year exam season after the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued a heatwave warning for NSW on Monday afternoon, as temperatures were not due to fall below 18°C for next three ...