Education

Students at Delany College in Granville are among the 83,000 students across NSW who are learning of their HSC results on Thursday.

A Holocaust survivor says the Bondi terror attack should be "a wake-up call" for the nation as the South Australian government double its funding for education programs.

The Northern Territory's top-scoring year 12 students have been celebrated at a ceremony at Parliament House, with some keen to pursue teaching careers inspired by the classroom support they received 

An educator says books that reflect remote Indigenous cultures and lifestyles are "the key to success" in improving reading outcomes for First Nations students.

This remote East Arnhem land community is home to 50 permanent residents. There's no shop and only one road in or out. And its unconventional approach to teaching is keeping kids in the classroom.

A course offered for the first time this year has upskilled home tutors working on remote central Australian cattle stations in a bid to ease education workforce shortages in the outback.

Parents had the opportunity to pore over NAPLAN results for their children's school this week, but interpreting the data may not have been clear at first glance.

Forty-one signatories to an open letter say they are "dismayed" and that school rankings cause "harm to our communities".

Nationally, there is a teacher shortage and one of the measures used to fill the gap is using undergraduates, but that too can have long-lasting impacts.

Parents at a South Australian school say they have been left in the dark about photos taken by a principal during a school camp.

Research suggests that actively encouraging students to be 'upstanders' to bullying may even be counterproductive.

An apprenticeship program in a remote Northern Territory town is helping businesses find skilled workers by connecting homegrown teens to local employment.

Parents can check the latest NAPLAN scores for 10,000 schools across the country on the MySchool website.

This story is about something deeper than policy or profit. It's about the trust parents place in childcare every morning when they hand over their children, believing they will be safe — only to find they're not.

Regional and remote students are being encouraged to learn old-school ways to stay in contact as social media bans for those under 16 come into effect over the summer holidays. 

SA's Minister for Education, Blair Boyer, is calling on retailers to help pay the climbing clean-up bill for removing coloured sand products linked to the asbestos scare.

Health authorities warn WA school leavers to be aware of an increase in sexually transmitted infections as they embark on end-of-school celebrations.

Two schools are completely closed, and another eight have partial closures as the clean-up of coloured sand products continues.

A senior secondary teacher says an error like the one found on the Tasmanian Certificate of Education legal studies exam paper "is really bad", as the education minister moves to assure students the errors would not affect end-of-year results.

Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?