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Teach Us Consent will expand its work on educating people aged 16 years and above on sexual violence and consent, with funds allocated from the 2023-24 budget.
From a remote primary school in the Northern Territory, six primary school students travelled a world away to take on the World Robotics Championships.
The headmaster of one of Sydney's elite schools has spoken about the quick judgement passed on some senior students after they were alleged to have killed a goanna while on a school camp at the end of last term.
Millions of Australians will be hit with a "student debt avalanche", a senator has warned, after a parliamentary inquiry report rejected a proposed law to freeze $74 billion in HECS and HELP loans.
A church which runs some of Australia's most prestigious schools believes students who are gay or having sex before marriage should not take up school leadership positions.
The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s “David” invited families from a Florida school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.
More than a million children across the country will sit the first of their NAPLAN tests today, putting their putting their reading, writing and mathematics skills to the test.
A former teacher has been refused bail over allegations of sexually assaulting three primary-school-age boys while teaching at a north-west Sydney public school decades ago.
A video shows two boys going toe to toe in a fight at Underdale High School yesterday in the school's sports sheds while dozens of other students watch on and film it.
A world-first nasal spray vaccine for whooping cough is being trialled in Australia, providing babies with a "game-changing" defence against the disease.
South Australia now joins Victoria, The North Territory, Western Australia and Tasmania as the fifth state or territory to ban mobile phones in high schools.
A 29-year-old woman used false documents to enrol as a US high school student and attended some classes over a four-day period before her scheme was discovered last week, authorities said.
Melbourne is the most expensive city for public education in all of Australia, costing parents over $100,000 for 13 years of schooling, according to new data.
NSW students expecting their ATAR results today are being comforted by a number of Australian public figures urging them not to be disheartened by lower-than-expected results.