Sydney students are going to extreme lengths to get ahead in this year’s HSC exams with reports some are skipping school to cram in more study time at home. Sydney Boys High School principal Kim Jaggar has written to parents ...

There's growing momentum among teaching unions to boycott a government-backed challenge tasking high school students to design a nuclear-powered propulsion system. The Nuclear-powered Submarine Propulsion Challenge, launched by Deputy Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Jonathon Earley in June, seeks to ...

Teachers are telling the state government to “show us the money”, with a list of demands including pay rises of up to 25 per cent over three years, more than $1bn in extra classroom support and a 20 per cent reduction in ...

This year’s national NAPLAN results are out, with the news only two-thirds of Australian students met minimum achievement levels in literacy and numeracy. The headlines are everything we would expect them to be – full of panic. Most reporting is ...

Over half of middle leaders in schools intend to leave the profession in the next 12 months, according to a recent State of the Sector report. The research was undertaken by PeopleBench, a Queensland-based company that specialises in improving school ...

Stress, burnout and increasing workloads are pushing principals to the brink, as experts warn urgent work needs to be done to address retention and recruitment. A new study led by Monash University’s Faculty of Education aims to shed light on the ...

Teachers and support staff across Australia continue to rally for state governments to commit to better pay and workload conditions. Industrial action is already underway in select Queensland and NSW schools, with Victorian and South Australian unions threatening to follow ...

Recent federal government data shows that Indigenous children are 20 per cent less likely to start school on track developmentally than their non-Indigenous peers. The annual Closing the Gap report released on 12 July indicates Australia is not currently on ...

Over 600 school students in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and NSW will participate in an expanded in-school learning program designed to increase early awareness and participation in STEM subjects. Defence security company BAE Systems and technology company Lumination partnered ...

A Senate report released last week has called on federal and state governments to implement urgent actions to address the rising trend in ‘school refusal’ among Australian students. The Education and Employment References Committee (EERC) received 172 submissions for the ...