Police have released information about the surprising number of arrests made on the first night of schoolies, as thousands of school leavers descend on the Gold Coast. About 20,000 schoolies are expected attend the first week of celebrations, prompting extra police officers called ...

An expert has urged Australia's educators to take the time to care for their mental health after a survey revealed widespread exhaustion and burn out across NSW schools. A recent NSW state survey, released last week, revealed that more than ...

More than 6000 NSW kids aged between ten and 14 have visited an emergency service over the past five years due to self-harm, new research has shown. According to Dr Michelle Tye from the Black Dog Institute and UNSW Medicine ...

The nation’s best young spellers have stumped the Prime Minister in a grilling which would put the opposition to shame. Zachary Cheng, 13, Ozi Egesi, 11, and 10-year-old Joanne Lee were crowned champions across three age groups in the Prime ...

Year 12 students around Australia are about to finish high school. While the end of the year is all about celebrating, an education expert has said some students would rather have a "quiet" departure. Senior education lecturer from the University ...

Queensland teachers will have the right to ignore phone calls and emails from work after school hours as part of a new enterprise agreement put forward by the state's teachers union.  A proposed "digital detox" clause from the Queensland Teachers' ...

NSW teachers’ workload could be reduced with the introduction of “machine scoring”, where robots would take over students' assignment marking, new research shows.  These new ‘automated grading technologies’ could be rolled out in NSW public schools in the next ten ...

After 34 years of teaching, Barbara*, a Catholic high school teacher has gone part-time due to her tipping workload which has been driven by data collection. The teacher decided to downsize her career to sustain a work-life balance and while ...

Five girls aged 14 to 16 years old, from an elite private school have been arrested and detained for hours in Singapore after they allegedly shoplifted from multiple stores while on a school trip. Year 10 students from elite Victorian school Bacchus Marsh Grammar travelled ...

Australia’s teachers need to do more to protect their LGBTIQA+ students from bullying and harassment, new research says. Researchers from the University of South Australia asked over 400 teachers about how they chose to intervene in bullying incidents against sexually ...