Hundreds of West Australian childcare centres either don’t meet minimum quality standards or are yet to be rated as politicians across the country focus on child safety.
Katina Curtis
Parents have described their shock at opening the email with their child’s results to discover they had received a score of zero for creative writing, one of the exam’s four sections.
Bethany Hiatt
Children as young as two are learning mindfulness and how to regulate their own emotions all through the simple practice of yoga.
Claire Sadler
All children at WA Catholic schools will soon get a three-week winter holiday — leaving staff and students in public schools the only ones with a two-week term break.
School attendance rates in the bush have dropped in recent years, along with youth engagement in jobs, university and training, according to landmark research.
Stephanie Gardiner
A young girl was terrified of returning to class for days after a Year 3 boy allegedly made a death threat then showed her a knife he had smuggled into a primary school in Perth’s south.
Education Minister Sabine Winton has ordered the State’s Education and Care Regulatory Unit to conduct a snap review of WA’s childcare system.
Jessica Page
Analysis of plans to reduce student debt by 20 per cent has found the reduction will not speed up the time taken to repay fees.
Andrew Brown
Australind’s up-and-coming authors put their creativity to the test to raise more than $4600 to fight childhood cancer.
Craig Duncan
With only a few days left to claim the student assistance payment, the Education Minister wouldn’t commit to using any leftover funds to boost KidSport vouchers that were reduced in the recent Budget.
Albany high school ACC Southlands took on the first of four Pedal Prix races, with four teams travelling to Perth to compete in fast-paced track endurance races in pedal-powered tricycles.
Jacki Elezovich
Sabine Winton says students will be able to ‘appreciate Harry Potter a bit better’ after it was revealed Latin would be offered as a subject for senior secondary students for the first time in almost 20 years.
Jessica Evensen
Latin will become a study option for WA’s senior secondary students for the first time in nearly 20 years, with interest in the ancient language undergoing something of a revival.
Almost 200 incidents of WA students caught with prohibited weapons have been reported in the past four years.
Starry-eyed high school students are waiting eagerly for their science projects to be launched 2000km out of this world as part of Curtin University’s BinarX spacecraft launch.
Caitlin Vinci
Education Minister Jason Clare wants to crack down on deepfakes nudifying students and has urged his State counterparts to step up in tackling the disturbing issue.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Parents are split on the merits of a longer winter holiday for students in public schools — though it appears kids are all in favour.
Bethany Hiatt & Caitlin Vinci
Try as you might, it’s impossible to make 12 weeks of school holidays go into the four weeks of annual leave of a parent working full time.
Editorial
Education experts are encouraging schools to teach kids better writing skills in all classes — not just English.
A former student allegedly demanded about $40,000 worth of cryptocurrency during a series of cyber attacks on a university.
Steve Zemek and Brendan Kearns
Residents in parts of a major city have been issued warnings as a firefighters battle a blaze at a factory, which police are treating as suspicious.
Brendan Kearns
Exhausted students and staff at public schools should get the same three-week winter term break that many private schools now enjoy, according to the head of WA’s peak body for high school principals.
Students have been forced to evacuate as a school in Sydney’s west was plunged into lockdown.
Clareese Packer
Evidence-based preventative methods can and should be applied in school curriculums to help eradicate sexual violence in Australia, experts say.
Maeve Bannister
