Qualified counsellors are not considered for public school counselling roles in any state but Victoria despite nationwide school mental health practitioner (MHP) shortages. The Victorian Department of Education will now allow registered counsellors to fill MHP roles in secondary schools ...

A scathing report produced by the Australian Education Union (AEU) found five top private schools spent more money on capital works than governments did for 3,372 public schools. It also found private schools spent more on new buildings and infrastructure ...

Teachers will have the right to refuse to respond to emails or phone calls from colleagues, parents or students outside of school hours thanks to the new Closing Loopholes Bill. The workplace laws, passed earlier this month, give millions of ...

Aussies love a good competition – seeing where our team ranks is one of the mainstays of our passion for many sports, indicating who is currently the best and who is at the bottom of the pile. So why shouldn’t ...

The federal government committed to increasing its share of public school funding from 20 per cent to 22.5 per cent on Tuesday – a $3bn per year investment and the biggest funding shakeup in more than a decade. To receive ...

As we stand at the threshold of 2024, the Australian education sector finds itself at a critical juncture. We have the opportunity to solve persistent workforce challenges using contemporary and transformative organisational strategy and design processes, or the choice to ...

Select Queensland state schools have begun trialling generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that generates personalised quizzes, based on student answers, to cater for unique learning styles and improve learning. The technology will be tested by 500 students, from years five ...

Universities and tertiary admissions centres are allowing year 12 students across Australia to apply for – and accept – course offers to university before they sit their final exams, complete year 12, and receive their ATAR. Critics of early university ...

An Australian Education Union (AEU) 2023 poll found that public school teachers fork out a combined $159.5m a year to buy classroom supplies vital to education due to the underfunding of public schools by governments. The September results said 85 ...

A new policy from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), effective from November 1, aims to lessen administrative workloads for NSW teachers by scrapping principal signatures on accreditation renewal paperwork. Teachers are still required to complete 100 hours of professional ...