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Hammond Park Secondary College students Phoenix, Macy and Diesel homepage image with inset of friend Leon, who died from bone cancer in 2024.

‘This is for Leon’: Perth teens’ quest to keep friend’s memory alive

It “felt almost impossible to reconcile” with the enormity of losing Leon. But his friends are now determined to do what they say he would have done for them.

  • Holly Thompson

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Harshal Mittal with his parents Harpreet and Madhur Mittal.

Thousands take this crucial school exam. Most will be disappointed

Some parents pay up to $20,000 for tutoring, raising the stakes for students sitting the selective entry high schools exam on Saturday.

  • Nicole Precel and Caroline Schelle
New education minister Sabine Winton.

Education minister promises to reduce WA teachers’ workload in first major speech

Sabine Winton spoke at the State School Teachers’ Union WA state council conference following the release of a survey which revealed the key reasons teachers had considered quitting.

  • Holly Thompson
Catherine Bust, head of junior school, and Katrina New, head of senior school, with students at Marsden Park Anglican College.

It only has a single bus and no sewerage connection. But enrolments at this school are booming

Marsden Park Anglican College is one of the many low-fee independent schools in Sydney’s west experiencing a surge in enrolments.

  • Emily Kowal
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
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
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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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