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 ...

A Coalition analysis of the Australian curriculum says cross-curriculum priorities, especially ones relating to First Nations culture, makes the content "overcrowded, too complex and infused with ideology". Opposition education spokeswoman Senator Sarah Henderson, on whose website the analysis was posted, ...

Consent education has been mandatory in Australian schools since 2023. Amid growing public understanding we need to reduce sexual violence and teach young people about healthy relationships, consent is now part of the national curriculum until Year 10. But is ...

A parliamentary inquiry has made 23 recommendations to the education sector after stating young people don't receive civics and citizenship education adequate enough to cast an informed vote. The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters undertook the Inquiry into civics ...

Two experts have been hand-picked by the federal government to travel the country for six months to gather stories of bullying in schools, as Labor forges ahead with its plan to create a national bullying policy. Education Minister Jason Clare ...

In a damning new report released Thursday, the Victorian Ombudsman has revealed there are systemic gaps in the Victorian Department of Education's policies, procedures and practices in managing child sexual abuse in schools. It comes after two separate investigations into ...