Disadvantaged students have missed out on learning during the pandemic, with a “digital divide” forcing some to use phones to access their classes, a new survey has revealed. The Smith Family children’s education charity surveyed 134 of its frontline workers ...

Large class sizes and heavy workloads can make it challenging for teachers to track their students’ performance at the best of times, but the pandemic and home-schooling has made this task even more of a struggle for many teachers. But ...

The school principal who threatened to shut down his independent Catholic college due to Western Australia’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate has been blasted for the “bizarre” decision. Principal and founder Adam Zydek told staff at Divine Mercy College in Yangebup that ...

Data from the NSW Department of Education shows that more than 100 Sydney public schools have more temporary or casual teachers than permanent ones. Some of the schools with the lowest number of permanent teachers include Cronulla, Rydalmere East and ...

Federal education minister Alan Tudge has said the revised federal government's religious discrimination bill will permit schools to hire on the basis of faith, but not be able to discriminate on other characteristics. The government is hoping the legislation will ...

Police have arrested a man during a protest against Covid vaccinations outside a high school in Sydney’s west. Officers from Nepean Police Area Command were called to Cranebrook High School about 8.30am on Tuesday after a group of up to 40 adults, students and ...

Two Perth schools have cancelled their co-production of the musical Grease because the movie’s themes and content are outdated. Year 7-10 students from Scotch College and Presbyterian Ladies‘ College were due to perform the iconic musical this month but decided ...

The pandemic and its ensuing lockdowns and social distancing restrictions have forced many schools to adopt remote learning. This created challenges for students, parents, and teachers alike as they grappled with the most effective ways to deliver and attend virtual ...

The draft Australian Curriculums (history) was front and centre at the education minister’s final meeting for 2021, following a speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), titled ‘Reforming Australia's Schools’, presented last month. In the speech, education minister Alan Tudge ...

When St Paul's College headmaster Dr Paul Browning recently wrote an article on LinkedIn, it garnered a lot of attention and support. The premise of the piece, which I'd encourage you to read, was that we are gradually "dehumanising education" ...