As another school year begins, parents, carers and schools are being urged to put simple, proactive supports in place to help autistic students have a smoother start and settle into new environments more quickly.
Teaching about consent and respectful relationships is vital to building a future where every student feels safe, valued and respected, Independent Schools NSW chief executive Margery Evans said today.
As more than 164,000 Queensland Catholic school students begin Term 1 this week, teachers and school support staff in the sector are calling on their employers to take immediate action on wages, workloads and other critical issues..
For the first time in two-and-a-half years, school kits with learning materials within have been successfully delivered to children in Gaza after they were previously blocked by Israeli authorities, children’s agency UNICEF says.
Female principals in public schools are regularly enduring misogynistic and sexist violence in their roles, only to be met with ‘suck it up princess’ attitudes from their employer, alarming new research has warned.
Teachers and principals who engage in hate speech could be fired under new laws strengthening rules for school staff.
Education Minister Jason Clare is pushing a ‘good news’ story, with new data showing applications and offers for undergraduate teaching courses have jumped for the third consecutive year.
Adolescent girls in some of Australia’s closest neighbours risk falling into a lifetime of poverty and gender-based violence as advocates warn the Federal Government must step up its foreign aid investment.
Consent educators and anti-violence advocates are busily attempting to tackle covert misogynistic attitudes online that encourage harmful attitudes among young men towards women.
What little global research there is available about high school transition indicates that while this point is universally considered critical, there remain numerous failings in it’s roll-out, and very little information to say what works well for...
