NSW services will get a cash boost worth more than $700 million to speed up the state’s transition into the digital age. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said her government would dip into the previously announced $1.6 billion Digital Restart Fund to ...

The House Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training yesterday tabled its inquiry report into the education of students living in remote and complex environments. The committee adopted the inquiry referred by education minister Dan Tehan in November last year ...

EducationReview · Dr Kate de Bruin | How education for people with a disability needs to change Dr Kate de Bruin, an expert and lecturer in inclusive education at Monash University, recently provided evidence to the Royal Commission into Violence, ...

Australian schools are disproportionately dolling out expulsions and suspensions – and vulnerable student groups are hardest hit, researchers say. After auditing exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools across 2019, University of South Australia researchers found that boys, Indigenous students, ...

A new program will help track suicides in real time, allowing schools, health workers and departments to track any worrying trends. Close to 700 people took their own lives in NSW between January 1 and the end of September this year, ...

The NSW government will offer free tutoring next year to disadvantaged students who have struggled after periods of home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.  In a first for the state, the tutoring will be provided by casual and retired teachers, ...

A study of more than 10,000 Year 7 Chinese students has concluded that low-performing students negatively affect their peers’ grades in Year 7, but the influence is fleeting and parents shouldn’t panic too early. Not only does the research show ...

“How can it be ethical to teach a program in schools that has not been rigorously evaluated?” This is one of the questions two academics posed as they argued that education research should be held to a higher standard, closer ...

A teenage boy has been arrested over an alleged “copycat” email threat that forced hundreds of students to evacuate a boys’ school in Sydney’s north. The boy is accused of sending a threatening email to North Sydney Boys school just days after dozens of ...

In what many people would find unusual, a Sydney school is offering HSC students cash incentives to perform well in their subjects. Al-Faisal College, in the western suburb of Auburn, gives out “$500 cheques to high-achieving students who score more ...