Nearly 100 Year 6 students from Mt Lockyer Primary School have tackled the gruelling 6.8km Bluff Knoll hike as part of an annual outdoor challenge
Georgia Campion
The vice-chancellor of one of the country’s biggest universities has issued an apology over what has been called “unacceptable” anti-Semitism expressed during an eight-week protest.
Jessica Wang
A former English teacher has been spared any more immediate jail time after sexually explicit photographs of children as young as six — including three he had taken himself — were found on his phones.
Tim Clarke
A Bindoon boarding school with a tragic early history is closing for at least two years after it was deemed unable to operate because of plummeting enrolments and other pressures.
Bethany Hiatt
The new data in the Department’s annual report, released in Parliament, show the violence teachers and principals face across WA.
Dylan Caporn
To ensure all children can benefit from childcare, the government has been urged to reduce costs and fully subsidise early education for low-income families.
Kat Wong
All children under five would be able to go to childcare for at least three days a week by 2036 no matter where they live or what their parents do under a new plan for universal care.
Katina Curtis
A blueprint for the future of child care being released today will tell the Government how to shift to a universal system akin to Medicare within a decade, but it is expected to cost billions of dollars.
A Senate inquiry has been told Australian universities are in “self-denial” over the true problem of anti-Semitism, as students allege they have been “singled out” and taunted over their identities.
Blake Antrobus
A new report reveals a disturbing fact about the number of men in one state who have had interactions with the police on domestic violence.
Clareese Packer
A former private school principal accused of possessing child exploitation material has died suddenly.
A Perth teenage girl accused of committing a terrifying kidnapping with her mother — which was filmed and posted online — has pleaded guilty to an alcohol stealing spree.
Rebecca Le May
Victoria has dug in its heels over an offer from the federal government on public school funding, arguing the Commonwealth should fill a known shortfall.
Rachael Ward
A decision by a primary school in Perth’s south to hand out medals to kids who aced their NAPLAN tests has sparked debate.
Lisa Rodgers, an advocate in education, was one of the few female intelligence officers back in the day.
Tony Buti
An Aussie primary school has written to parents assuring them they are remaining “vigilant” after a young girl was pricked while picking up a discarded needle on the school grounds.
Duncan Evans
The Goldfields primary school community with “a lot of heart” was buzzing with activity as it celebrated the milestone of educating children for 120 years.
Anneke de Boer
A child has been pricked by a needle found in the playground of a Broome primary school amid residents’ complaints of an alarming increase in the number of needles being discarded across the tourist town.
The former vice-captain of a private school who admitted to helping his dad cover up a brutal alleged murder has learnt his fate in court.
Students across NSW will learn about the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australians as part of a major high-school education overhaul.
Neve Brissenden
Childcare workers will get a pay rise in a bid to retain and attract early childhood educators back to the sector under laws introduced to parliament.
Andrew Brown and Tess Ikonomou
Australia’s global reputation as a provider of high-quality tertiary education is threatened by proposed international student caps, a university peak body says.
Bloomberg
Hawthorn’s coach has responded to former teammate Luke Hodge’s strong criticism of Jack Ginnivan’s recent antics.
Ed Bourke
A town in Finland is trying something different for the start of this academic year: going back to pen and paper.
Elviira Luoma and Anne Kauranen
