The right of students to learn, and the right of teachers to teach in a safe and calm learning environment is at risk with the release of the NSW Government’s new Inclusive, Engaging and Respectful Schools policy, due to be implemented next term.
Ignoring the union’s repeated warnings of the flaws and dangers inherent within the new policy, the Education Minister unilaterally went ...
The Federal Government has passed legislation through the House of Representatives today to increase funding for public schools.
Australia will move to ban social media for children aged under 16, with the prime minister declaring he was “calling time” on the harm caused to young people.
New Zealand’s largest teachers’ union has alleged the Government’s new charter school legislation violates international labour laws and teachers’ working rights.
Forty years ago, the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) began its journey to support schools in delivering quality library services. We reflect on the enduring impact of SCIS's innovations and speak to figures pivotal to its development.
Teaching students to be fluent, articulate and confident in using language to express themselves is critical in the fight to combat domestic violence and abuse, school principal and well-known author John Marsden says.
A jumping castle was pegged to the ground by only half its anchor points when a sudden “mini tornado” tossed it in the air, killing six children, a court has been told.
Jodi Picoult's novel Nineteen Minutes, about a school shooting, has topped a PEN America list of the books most often pulled from school shelves.
Children with a parent in prison have been heard from directly for the first time in more than a decade about what they experience, need and want in a new report.
Educators in schools across Australia believe that little more than a third of their colleagues are mentally healthy, a Beyond Blue survey has found.
