Education is bestowed a specific role in empowering young generations to address global challenges like poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation. This novel endeavour presents a challenge, as the goals were not shaped by the education community, but by ...

Kindergarten children will learn about consent, the human body, and world history for the first time under sweeping changes in the NSW primary school curriculum – but for most students the benefits won’t come for another two years. From 2027 teachers across ...

The new years 7-10 science curriculum is well set up to support beginning teachers and teachers without science training, whilst offering the appropriate autonomy for experienced educators, the Science Teacher's Association NSW (STANSW) said. The association also said the new ...

Authors, illustrators and poets featured in this year’s Higher School Certificate (HSC) English exams are to be given additional support following online abuse and trolling from some year 12 students in former years. The 2023 HSC kicked off with written ...

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 ...

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 ...

NSW teachers will no longer need their accreditation signed off by their school principal under a new policy of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) that comes into effect from November 1. Teachers will still need to complete the existing ...

During my third year of teaching English and History at senior secondary school, I told a colleague I wanted to enroll in a Master of Educational Studies as I was passionate about literacy education. She responded: “Why would you want ...

With the announcement that the NSW lockdown has been extended for four more weeks and continually rising COVID-19 cases in the greater Sydney area, this years' HSC has been thrown further into chaos. Alongside the lockdown announcement, Premier Gladys Berejiklian ...

A new strike force has been established after bomb threats emailed from an anonymous source forced more than 300 students to suspend their HSC biology exam yesterday and evacuate their school buildings. The emails were sent to schools primarily on ...