An education expert has welcomed NSW Labor's pledge to expand access to co-ed schools, but has called for STEM and literacy classes to be separated by gender.  Earlier this week, state Labor announced plans to expand catchment areas for co-ed ...

South Australia's education minister Blair Boyer has vouched to make “school safer” and tackle violence on playgrounds following a rise in schoolyard incidents. On Tuesday, an education roundtable was held to discuss new strategies to address school violence across the ...

A Sydney high school has backed down on a plan to start scanning students’ fingerprints when they use the toilets, after claiming it would stamp out “vandalism." The proposed measure by Moorebank High School, west of Sydney, raised alarm with one ...

Recent headlines about students disengaging from mathematics paints a worrying picture. Some experts propose innovative ideas to rehaul the curriculum, others lament about the need to keep things as they have always been, teachers are given advice about how to ...

Northern Territory teachers could receive more than $7m in back payments as part of a new enterprise agreement proposal. If voted on, the new agreement would see educators receive a three per cent back payment for periods after October 2021 ...

NSW English and maths syllabuses are set to be overhauled starting next year and will focus on building students' punctuation, grammar, syntax, sentence structure and core numeracy skills. The curriculum changes were announced on Monday by the state education department ...

Primary state schools and regional schools have made the biggest improvements in their NAPLAN results over the past five years, according to a new independent report. A recent NewsCorp analysis used MySchool data to track nationwide NAPLAN results between 2017 ...

Mobile phones in South Australian public high schools are set to be banned from 2023. The decision follows months of consultations between the state education department, teachers, principals, parent groups and unions after incidents involving students using phones to record ...

School counsellors in NSW have been forced to ‘select’ which students they see due to severe shortages staffing across the state. In October, more than 70 full-time positions for counsellors were vacant in state schools, with only one counsellor available ...

Australia’s need for educators has been driven by an interplay of salary, burnout and dissatisfaction, but new research will seek to find answers from a largely overlooked stakeholder - ex-teachers.  Experts from three major universities will survey teachers across the ...