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People light candles on the main square in Graz’s city centre after the deadly school shooting.

Gunman who killed 10 at old high school ‘felt he had been bullied’

As students in Austrian city of Graz returned to class after a long weekend, a man armed with two guns walked into the school he once attended and opened fire.

  • Francois Murphy, Leonhard Foeger and Borut Zivulovic

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Students at 290 Melbourne schools will be expected to meet higher standards of respect and behaviour under a new regime based on the principles of explicit instruction.

‘Reclaim the classroom’: Catholic school discipline goes back to basics

Students at 290 Melbourne schools will be expected to meet higher standards of respect and behaviour under a new regime based on the principles of explicit instruction.

  • Noel Towell
Strathfield Girls High School’s international students Liwon Ahn,  Yashan Liang and Changyue Liu.

Why international students love Sydney’s in-demand public schools

Students like Liwon Ahn love Australia, but shrinking availability is making it more difficult for international students to enrol in Sydney’s public schools.

  • Emily Kowal
Josh Mulcahy, a year 9 boarding student at St Joseph’s College in Hunters Hill.

No phones, no traffic: Why parents are choosing boarding schools

NSW private boarding school enrolments are slowly recovering after being hit by a major fall in local and international student numbers.

  • Lucy Carroll
Daniel Libeskind, one of the world’s most heralded contemporary architects, is part of the design team for Mount Scopus College’s new Caulfield campus.

Global architecture superstar to build Caulfield private school

Mount Scopus has secured a major coup, hiring one of the world’s top architects for its giant new build on the Caulfield Racecourse site.

  • Noel Towell
Suspended students interpret the experience as a message that they don’t belong at the school anymore.

School suspensions beget more suspensions. It’s rare that they fix student behaviour

When I worked as a school principal, literally nothing in the job robbed me of more sleep than when I had to suspend students.

  • Adam Voigt
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Anthony Courtman at ICAC

Schools unit contractor was paid $2.4m with no formal job description

While Anthony Courtman worked for School Infrastructure, he was also engaged by a consultancy company that billed the agency for his work.

  • Lucy Carroll
Impressions of Australia’s first Hindu School

Revealed: The plans for Australia’s first Hindu school

On a block of land in western Sydney, Australia’s fastest-growing religious group is planning its first foray into mainstream education.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Saachi Singh is one of 19 students whose work was selected for the Young Writers showcase. Photo Jessica Hromas

These students aced HSC English Extension. This is how they did it

Last year, almost 1500 students did English Extension 2. Just 19 made it into the Young Writers Showcase – this is what they shared in common.

  • Emily Kowal
Annie Leutenmayr, 19, is  first year nursing student at Victoria University. Annie  was homeless but is now studying full time and living in transitional housing.

Annie was 17 when she slept on a park bench. All she cared about was school the next day

School was tough the day after Annie Leutenmayr slept on a park bench in Melbourne’s CBD. But the 17-year-old wasn’t going to miss it.

  • Nicole Precel

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