The resignations come as parents continue to pressure Ballarat Grammar over its response to allegations that up to 10 senior students engaged in sustained physical abuse of younger students.

Key staff at private boarding school step down after ‘strapping’ abuse scandal

The head of Ballarat Grammar’s boarding facility and his deputy have stood down from running Dart House,the principal has told staff.

  • 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

Pro-Palestine group sends teachers classroom guide challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

Teachers for Palestine want schoolchildren taught about Australian soldiers acting as “enforcers of Empire” in post-WWI Egypt.

  • Alex Crowe andNoel Towell
Teacher Leah Myers completed a second master’s degrees to understand the latest teaching methods.

Universities radically reform teaching degrees as deadline looms

Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.

  • Alex Crowe
Parent WhatsApp groups are renowned for becoming hotbeds of gossip and bullying.

‘Diabolically bad’:When parents’ school WhatsApp groups turn toxic

Gossip and bullying pile-ons are turning parents’ WhatsApp groups into a battleground,and schools are being urged to fight back.

  • Nicole Precel
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
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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
Zeke Dumbleton,10,and his mum,Greta,at Parramatta East Public School.

In five years,Zeke has never had a classroom inside his school’s building

Parramatta East Public School,like many in the region,has been over its student cap for years,but now new funding will bring its classes out of demountables.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
An internal audit found Queensland state schools failing to comply with procedures for charging parents fees,and the department not monitoring the situation.

‘Not always transparent and defensible’:Audit slams state school fees

Student Resource Scheme fees generated more than $100 million for state schools last year. But an audit by the Queensland education department found problems.

  • Sean Parnell