Covid is still impacting Australian kids, with over a third of parents feeling their child’s academic performance and mental wellbeing has suffered according to a new report. The concerns come after kids have been stuck in lockdown and learning from ...

The Victorian government has signalled it could scrap mask mandates for primary school students as soon as the start of Term 2. A government statement revealed Tuesday if Covid-19 conditions continued as expected and case numbers remained steady, mask mandates ...

Schools around Australia have been stricken by the latest surge in Covid-19, forcing classes to close or operate with minimal staff. For the past two weeks, at least 25 per cent of NSW public school students and teachers have been ...

Schools across NSW are either closed or operating with minimal staff due to the spread of Covid-19, forcing teachers and students home to isolate. The Independent Education Union (IEU) has revealed 25 per cent of public school students were not in ...

Schoolchildren as young as year 3 will be made to wear face masks in Western Australia from Thursday despite mandates easing across the country. As Covid-19 cases soar in the state, which has gone through the past two years of ...

School students and teachers across NSW will be freed from mask mandates next week, as the state’s health authorities continue to ease Covid-19 restrictions. From Monday, all students and high school staff will no longer need to wear a face ...

Schools in NSW will continue to hand out rapid antigen tests to help keep kids in classrooms but surveillance testing will end. Eight RAT kits will be offered to each student and staff member in NSW schools, Premier Dominic Perrottet ...

High-profile infectious disease expert Nick Coatsworth has called for a re-evaluation of mask policy, specifically in schools. The former deputy chief medical officer posted on social media on Tuesday he believed the “tide has turned on masks”. “People recognise they had ...

The release of the 2021 NAPLAN results confirm there has been no statistically significant drop in student performance resulting from two years of the pandemic at both national and state/territory levels. But despite this positive news, the Australian Education Union ...

An international team of academics has recently published research examining how teachers experienced the swift transition to online learning as COVID-19 impacted face-to-face learning across the world. As both student enrolments and teacher shortages are expected to increase in the ...