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Migrant students and changing demographics at private schools. Image at Good News Lutheran School in Tarneit. Students from the same family, Gurveen - year 3, Gurnaz -year 9 and Gurshaan -year 1. Thursday, November 20. 2025. Picture: David Crosling

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How migrant kids influx is boosting NAPLAN scores at top schools

The nation’s most desirable schools are seeing a huge rise in students from non-English speaking backgrounds, data reveals. Search the list of over 250 top schools.

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Migrant students are boosting results in SA high schools. The Heights has increased its portion of migrant students from 16 percent ten years ago, now to 51 percent. Four of those students are, ( F) Minha,12, (LtoR B) Muhammad,12, Paarth,13, and Abbas,12. 20 November 2025. Picture: Dean Martin

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Search the list: Migrant enrolments soar at Victoria’s Top 100 schools

Migrant students are flocking to our best public and private schools, changing demographics and boosting NAPLAN scores. See which schools have the biggest levels of growth.

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VCE students celebrate the end of exams.

‘War is over’: Year 12 students celebrate end of exams

Year 12 students have taken to social media to celebrate the end of VCE exams, burning their notes and throwing books in the bin, after the 2025 testing period concluded without major incident.

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People queue for COVID vaccination at a clinic set up at Al-Taqwa College in Truganina. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Independent schools share slice of $26m in state govt funding

Victorian students at nine independent schools will soon learn in state-of-the-art facilities after the Allan government announced a multimillion-dollar investment.

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**BLURRED PIX FOR ONLINE USE** ****EXCLUSIVE NEWS 360 PREMIUM LOCKED CONTENT - AUS OUT, NEWS.COM.AU OUT**** A young Australian man pushed a policeman after he was approach due to his involvment in a street fight in the nightclub district in Kuta during the schoolies period, Bali. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Is your child going overseas for schoolies? Bad idea…

Is your teen heading to Bali, Fiji or Thailand for schoolies this year? A safety expert’s advice is to think twice – because the biggest risks aren’t immediately apparent.

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Guardian childcare Chef Wendy Perez-Borg is doing food differently for the centre. Reyansh, Molly, Ella, Samuel love the choices that have been prepared for them to eat. The chef at this centre won chef of the year for Victoria in Guardian's recent national competition. Picture: Tony Gough

Childcare goes gourmet: Fancy food wins over picky little eaters

Parents are stunned as their formerly fussy kids eagerly devour everything from fish masala to mushroom fettuccine at this childcare centre.

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Sub image art for exam blunders

Bolshevik robots, riot cops and fail Caesars – a history of epic exam blunders

Remember how a 30m-tall battle robot joined the Russian Revolution in 1917? That was a history exam lowlight – but it’s far from the only fiasco to send year 12s into meltdown.

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Aquinas College has been accused of lifting its fees by more than 60 oer cent for some families. Picture: Facebook

‘Money grab’: Devastated parents lash Ringwood school’s 60 per cent fee hike

Parents from Aquinas College say they were blindsided by the school’s decision to substantially hike fees, with many now considering pulling their kids out.

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Ebony Thompson was 22 months old when she died after suffering from a medical incident at the Humpty Doo Community and Child Care Centre on August 30, 2023. Picture: Supplied

Childcare workers charged over toddler’s hanging death

A childcare centre and three workers have been charged over the accidental hanging of an Aussie toddler who was left unsupervised in the playground for 10 minutes.

Portrait of a naughty and messy little boy. The boy looks angrily at the camera.

Kids who can’t stop saying no: does defiance need a doctor?

Parents of children with a controversial mental health condition say a diagnosis liberated them, but a psychologist warns going down the medical route isn’t ideal.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 4, 2025: Minister for Education, Jason Clare during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Failing their future: Doctors’ damning report card on Aussie kids

A major study of the wellbeing of Australian children has found it stagnating or in decline across 21 of 22 key measures – and a group of senior doctors is pointing the finger.

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Students: Michaela, 14 Ivy, 15 Gabrielle, 15 With Matt Landmark Is this Australia's best school canteen/tuckshop with Former Masterchef contestant Matt Landmark at the Albert Park College canteen. Picture: Jason Edwards

From MasterChef to school canteen – is this Australia’s best tuck shop?

A MasterChef contestant and social media star runs this school’s canteen, but students are the real operators, keeping costs low, passions high and school community strong.

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Montessori Academy operations chief Rami Nassif. Picture: Darcy Fitzgerald

AI eyes ‘keeping kids safe’ in big childcare provider centres

A major childcare provider will rollout ‘proactive’ AI-powered CCTV across its centres as a state government mandates video surveillance in high-risk locations.

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hot day in Hobart, picture of grade sevne Friends school kids enjoying outdoor education class on Kingston beach

Maths at the beach? Expert’s bold plan to take STEM lessons into nature

Identifying mathematical patterns in nature is the secret to make primary schoolers fall in love with maths, one expert says as the government plans major curriculum reforms.

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