Most teachers have had the experience at some stage in their careers. With a teacher shortage looming, chances are that if it hasn’t happened to you yet, the day is coming when you will be asked to teach a subject ...

The Victorian government has unveiled plans to hold a public inquiry into historical sexual abuse perpetrated by staff at Beaumaris Primary School and other government schools. On Tuesday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced eminent lawyer Kathleen Foley SC would chair ...

A former employee at a prestigious Sydney girls school, who is fighting allegations he possessed child abuse material at his workplace, will have to wait to find out what evidence police have against him as they continue to conduct investigations ...

More than 5000 temporary and casual staff across NSW have accepted permanent teaching roles since April, according to official data. The state education department said 5,463 temporary teachers and support staff at 982 schools have converted to full-time since Labor’s ...

After three years of floods, bushfires, lockdowns, and the seemingly endless pressures of the pandemic, Australian teachers are struggling. While many industries are back to business as usual, the new normal for teachers is anything but. Unmanageable workloads, long work ...

The need to explicitly teach vocabulary to our students is vastly underestimated in secondary schools. For decades, teachers and academics have been researching the problem of literacy in schools so we know that many students don’t really have enough words ...

Australian secondary schools are continuing to see an increase in classes being taught out-of-field. According to a report released yesterday by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), at least one in four high school teachers were taking ...

An innovative program that introduces West Australian schoolchildren to university-level concepts in physics is set to go national, backed by federal government support to train teachers to deliver it. The program, Einstein First, which is currently offered in 38 WA schools, will ...

Young people have kicked off a national campaign at Parliament House to lower the federal voting age from 18 to 16, but the government says it’s not the country’s “priority right now”. Supported by independent MPs Monique Ryan and Andrew ...

Children in Queensland will have access to free kindergarten under a new measure the government says will help save families “thousands of dollars” each year. Ahead of the state’s budget on Tuesday, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the $645 million ...