NSW will introduce the Teach for Australia program,allowing students to fast-track their career while completing a masters degree.
St Peter’s Anglican Grammar opened at the start of the school year. Just months later,parents were left shocked when they were told it was no longer viable.
Dominic Perrottet has urged parents to set a good example for kids on social media,deploring disrespectful engagement led by adults online.
Discontent had been building at Australia’s oldest regional university for years when its vice chancellor was accused of wiping her saliva on a schoolgirl’s face.
The NSW government will appoint a specialist adviser to help all schools navigate increasingly difficult student behaviour.
There are situations where students do need their phones,and it is up to the school principals and teachers to manage that.
The rate of early career teachers quitting in their first five years surged to 11.6 per cent in 2021,up 50 per cent compared to the previous year.
It is a structural oddity that has placed Australia as an outrider on the OECD world stage.
Australia’s teachers are ageing as younger people turn away from the profession,sparking a warning that students will ultimately miss out.
50 years ago,hundreds of high school students came from all over Sydney,to march down Macquarie Street,and demand equality and freedom of expression.
Teachers have spoken publicly about an alleged asbestos “cover-up”,suggesting to parliament the principal was driven by desire to achieve strong HSC results.
A snapshot of this year’s HSC subject data shows students taking physics has fallen to its lowest in 20 years,while business studies and PDHPE are at 10-year highs.
Charles Sturt University students who score as low as 40 out of 100 will be given a second assessment. Academics,however,fear it will compromise standards.
Sydney private school Cranbrook’s school council has written to parents promising action after complaints about anti-Semitic bullying and other unacceptable behaviour by its students.
Australia needs to radically rethink how our schools are organised,how the teacher workforce is developed and supported,and how the learning challenges students face are confronted quickly and effectively.
Peakhurst Public School set out to improve its students’ writing skills and is now gaining a reputation for fostering young creative writers.
As the crisis facing an Indigenous education non-profit that receives millions in government money escalates,founder Noel Pearson has been appointed acting chief executive.
Lifting student performance,reversing declining attendance and closing the education gap must underpin the next National School Reform Agreement.
Universities have already made thousands of direct offers to HSC candidates,well before final exams have begun,to try to lock in students in a competitive market.
The vernacular cops a battering
Two of the state’s top selective schools have become embroiled in a chat room scandal that included racist,homophobic and violent misogynist posts.
An allegation a Jewish boy was stuffed in a school locker to simulate a Nazi gas chamber comes amid a growing number of anti-Semitism incidents,says NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Darren Bark.
Nine schools and two support units will close for the final week of term as they will be inaccessible once roads are closed for a key world cycling race.
An alumni group is pushing for girls to be admitted at one of Australia’s most prestigious boys’ schools,but not all parents are on board.
Classmates and families of regional competitors and professional sporting scouts are among the viewers tuning into live-streaming of school sports.
Bobby Gallo has been suspended from teaching in WA for a minimum of three years for grooming one of his students at Methodist Ladies’ College in Perth.
The Sydney private school was told of bullying and given video footage of a boy in uniform at school performing a Nazi salute but did not respond for over five weeks.
Fees at Sydney’s private schools have risen by an average of more than 50 per cent in the past decade – far exceeding inflation and wage growth – and could hit $70,000 annually at some of the city’s most expensive schools within 15 years.
Principal Scott James told parents on Tuesday that 20 Knox students have faced or are facing disciplinary action after offensive material was posted in an online group.
If federal Education Minister Jason Clare has one goal this term,it should be making sure all of our kids can read.
Islamic school principals say they can’t keep up with demand as they push for an increase in enrolment caps.
Students with disabilities should receive extra support when sitting their HSC to ensure an even playing field. But the fact private schools are more likely to claim this assistance for their students suggests the system around HSC disability provisions may be exacerbating inequality,rather than addressing it.
Schools in Sydney’s north and east claim almost double the disability provisions than those in the west,and nearly 20 per cent of private school students apply.
Community leaders say two recent incidents are the latest examples in a “systemic and cultural problem” of anti-Semitism in schools.
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has asked the state’s education authority to closely monitor the situation at private school Knox Grammar following revelations students were expelled after posting offensive messages in an online private chat group.
My alma mater confronts scandal - yet again. A reunion with an old classmate forced me,too,to confront some hard truths.
Knox Grammar School told parents this week that doctored images did not require mandatory reporting under child protection requirements.
MPs Alex Greenwich and Allegra Spender are calling for a new public high school in eastern Sydney,saying families have been forced to move catchments or leave the public system.
The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank is a robust measure of scholastic achievement,but not of who might achieve at university.
Principal Scott James said he had acted following “an incident” involving several students at the upper north shore school.
A new study,described as the best of its kind,found making kids wear masks at school makes little difference to the spread of COVID-19. But that doesn’t necessarily mean masks don’t work.
The most recent NSW crime statistics show there were more than 646 sexual offences on school grounds in the year to March.
The university will make attracting a broader range of students a priority,setting aside places and giving them up to $25,000 over the course of their degree.
The boy’s lawyer appealed the severity of the sentence straight away,while the girl’s family says it is too light.
A $20 million gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation will help fund the venture,making the philanthropists the biggest named donors in the university’s history.
Trinity Grammar School is seeking approval to raise the number of students permitted on its Summer Hill campus from the existing cap of 1500 to 1655 - the number of boys already enrolled.
Student participation in NAPLAN fell to an all-time low this year,with COVID-19,flu and floods blamed for so few students taking the standardised test.
A magistrate said evidence from a boy found guilty of raping his schoolmate had,in effect,“placed responsibility ... on her”.
The salaries of four university vice chancellors remain at about $1 million after most tertiary education chiefs’ pay packets fell slightly or held steady during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A rape victim is considering suing the NSW Department of Education and the school,as her attacker is sentenced to seven months in jail.