Education

A female teacher is facing five common assault charges against several students.

Changes to bus services meant Jack Triffitt had to walk to school every Friday, traversing a swamp, multiple hills, a dirt road and a bridge. So he lobbied politicians, government departments and Metro for change.

The latest schools data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows a tinderbox of problems that experts warn could explode with growing pressure on household budgets.

Labor has announced a plan for further funding to expand out of school hours care, while the Liberal Party now supports the concept of free schools and is demanding a freight bypass to get trucks off city roads.

Playing before eating has led to higher academic performance and fewer behavioural issues among students at a NSW public school.

In-home care provides services to about 1,000 families, but its viability is under threat because it is excluded from a government payment covering rising worker costs. 

Labor has vowed to abolish public school fees for primary and high school students from 2027, if it's returned to government, while the Liberal Party said it will commit $4.3 million to stop stormwater litter reaching South Australia's coastline.

Two students who went to the same university 30 years apart share their radically different experiences as lectures go online and face-to-face contact takes a back seat in the post-pandemic world.

Some students at Adelaide University say they are frustrated by ongoing communication and enrolment issues post-merger.

Nine childcare services that have failed to lift standards will only be named if the federal government decides to cut their taxpayer funding.

The newly merged Adelaide University has experienced an accreditation and compliance issue for human research projects, only receiving "conditional" accreditation as opposed to full approval from a federal body late last week with further documentation still required.

Tasmania's state opposition unveils a policy to extend kindergarten to five days a week in an effort to tackle the state's underperforming education system, but the government says Labor is "light on details".

Almost two years after a state government report revealed 35 per cent of all buildings within the Department for Education's portfolio were past their design life, many schools are still plagued with issues including mould, asbestos and rotting windows.

The rural-based social program in the shadow of Mt Tamborine has had remarkable success in rebuilding the lives of youth who have fallen through the cracks.

While growing up, people didn't make much sense to Summer, but chickens always did. Now, Summer is using what they learnt to help other children with autism understand human interactions.

Educators are not being given enough time during the week to manage the complex needs of students with disabilities, a NSW teacher and assistant principal says.

The age of AI is here and it's going to be infinitely useful, or so they tell us, unless you're the kind of person who, like me, finds computer-generated stories infinitely boring and an insult to humanity.

Reports of bullying in ACT public schools have risen sharply in four years. Parents and teachers say children are paying the price, and the system is not coping.

A family from Torquay, Victoria, was so impressed by a school's progressive approach that they relocated to Lismore, 1,500 kilometres away in New South Wales, to enrol their children.

Temporary teachers in Indonesia paid low wages criticise a government decision to direct one third of yearly education funding to the president's flagship free meals program.