Coburg High School student Florence Nichols,and her rabbit Quincy,studying for her vocational major VCE.

Thousands of high school students shun ‘two years of hell’ in favour of vocational VCE

The vocational major VCE has breathed new life into vocational education and training in Victorian schools,but there are calls for the government to do more.

  • Noel Towell

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Mahin Sarker is one of thousands of students taking the 2025 selective schools test.

‘It’s a bit extreme’:Manha’s gruelling daily routine ahead of the selective schools test

Some 17,559 children will sit the selective school test this week for 4200 places. Ninety per cent of them have been coached.

  • Frances Howe
Enrolments at all-boys’ Xavier College have fallen over the past five years.

It may not be trendy,but I’d still send my kids to single-sex schools

Single-sex schools are weird. A relic. A social experiment that makes no sense in the modern world. But if I had my time over again I’d send my kids to one,and they would all choose the same too.

  • Kate Halfpenny
Justin Mullaly,president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union

The worst paid teachers in Australia are spoiling for a fight to get a better deal

The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.

  • Noel Towell
Australia has a maths problem. One in three of our school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths.

WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens

The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.

  • Holly Thompson
Principal Tony Roberts says “ground zero” is for every student to have someone who believes in them.

How ‘Australia’s worst school’ transformed after public low point

Two determined principals dramatically turned around the culture of a school where student and educators’ physical and mental health,plus academic records,had been plummeting.

  • Nicole Precel
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will link the plan for new vocational training colleges to the Coalition’s other policies on skills and housing.

Coalition makes first major school announcement with training college network

The $260 million pledge to build 12 technical colleges for high school students is a move towards teaching skills rather than pushing students into university.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Education Minister Ben Carroll.

Exam authority board sacked after thousands accessed VCE tests early

The report published on Tuesday found web pages that inadvertently published sample cover pages containing exam content had been viewed thousands of times.

  • Alex Crowe andRachel Eddie
Jayden Browne said he’s gone from failing to passing in all his subjects thanks to help in small group tuition.

Two years ago,Jayden was failing school. A single thing changed that

Almost 30 per cent of year 7 students are not meeting proficiency standards in reading. The NSW government plans to spend $80 million a year on a program to fix it.

  • Christopher Harris
Ankle bracelets are to be fitted to 50 underage offenders during a trial.

Key questions drag on ankle bracelet trial for teens accused of serious crimes

Victoria’s trial for putting monitoring devices on underage offenders is due to start this month,but where the teens will be sent is among the unanswered questions.

  • Caroline Schelle