In the second week of January, 160 year 11 and 12 students gathered to learn about coding, cryptography, cyber security and generative artificial intelligence at ed-tech charity Grok Academy's school holidays computer science camp. Designed to address Australia's tech skills ...

A kindergarten to year 12 education at one of Sydney's private girls' schools costs $587,975 after fees increased this year, making it the most expensive school in the country. Rose Bay school Kambala also increased its year nine tuition to ...

Police were called to schools across NSW almost 20,000 times in the year to November 2023, including for serious sexual incidents and violence involving pistols and swords. The rising tide of school violence in the state has been laid bare in ...

The panel of the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) review released a report on Tuesday that will guide negotiations about the next education reforms. The NSRA is a bilateral agreement between federal and state and territory governments, where the latter ...

One hundred and twenty-eight NSW teens celebrated ranking first in their final exam subjects on Wednesday, surrounded by their teachers and families. NSW Deputy Premier Prue Car congratulated the HSC top achievers at the University of Western Sydney's Parramatta campus. ...

An Australia Institute and Rationalist Society of Australia survey found 71 per cent of Australians do not know public school pastoral care workers are hired based on religion instead of qualifications. Two in three of the 1,379 respondents said they ...

The NSW Department of Education closed 19 schools in central and Western NSW last Friday due to extreme fire danger weather and record-breaking temperatures. Temperatures in Western NSW soared to 40 degrees Celsius on Friday and Saturday, accompanied by hot ...

Victorian students woke to the sound of the ATAR alarm yesterday morning as their senior exam results were released from 7am, before the rest of the year 12 students in Australia who will receive their final marks in the coming ...

A 2023 program funded by the federal government's Emerging Priorities initiative saw teachers save an average of 94 hours each in lesson planning time this year. The grant program was established in 2021 to fund projects that assist school communities ...

Unfortunately, bullying and school-related mental stress in its various forms are considered commonplace in our society. Despite current rhetoric around social media and its links to wellbeing and social exclusion, it is not the root cause for most. Mental stress ...