The federal government has awarded 1,000 more scholarships to teaching students in round two of its Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program. The program is a key initiative of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan and aims to attract and support the ...

A stand-off over public schools funding between the NSW Government and their federal counterparts has been resolved after the state has secured an extra $4.8bn for its public schools. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the deal, which will result in ...

Just over two years have passed since ChatGPT landed. Although the response from the general public was laced with fear, uncertainty, and doubt, Australian schools quickly shifted into overdrive to figure out what role generative AI could play in curricula ...

South Australian Australian Education Union (AEU) staff claim they felt threatened, devalued and distressed after being “berated” by a union secretary, a Fair Work Commission bullying hearing was told. Union staffer Howard Spreadbury sparked the action against his employer, the Australian ...

Independent Schools Australia (ISA) will ask all political parties to rule out funding cuts to independent schools in the next election to put an end to what it calls the "blame game" that pits school sectors against each other. The ...

Public schools across NSW have been put on notice to drastically boost students’ academic performance and attendance rates, with the Minns government today unveiling 16 ambitious new targets to arrest rapidly declining marks. Last year, the NAPLAN results showed thousands ...

Today’s students are exposed to a world where a man found liable for sexual abuse has become the President of the United States, and a social media founder who reaches three billion users globally has updated the platform to allow women ...

In 1987, UK researchers lamented how schools were organised “around the assumption that the nuclear family is the norm”. Families who did not fit this model were “either ignored (tactfully) or categorised as abnormal”. Several generations have passed through schools ...

The 2025 school year is under way, and every young Australian is sharing the experience of renewingfriendships and the routines of school and learning. But, these days, students are far less likely to be sharing the same type of school, ...

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data released on Monday reported an increase of 45,008 students enrolled into Australian schools in 2024 compared with 2023. About 39,600 of these students went into private schools, with only 5,419 enrolled in the public ...