A family embroiled in a legal fight with a Gold Coast early learning centre which breached child safety laws, including drawing on their kid, claims it has stopped responding to emails. Full story.
Educational apps are leading the change for learning both in and outside classrooms across the country with parents, experts and principals revealing their tips and tricks ahead of the start of school.
A popular preschool trial has been quietly scrapped by the CLP, leading to members of a rural community to fight for it to be reinstated.
Kids who play at the beach have been shown to have greater science and maths knowledge than those confined to a classroom.
Some Melbourne childcare centres are charging more per year, before subsidies, than tuition for a year 12 student at Geelong Grammar.
A council has sparked outrage over its plan to reduce sessional kindergarten services, leaving families and staff in limbo.
A Swedish native is giving Australian kids in Melbourne a taste of Scandinavian education, taking the classroom to another level.
These are the areas that will get the first free pre-prep classes as part of Victoria’s childcare overhaul. See when it will be rolled out in your suburb or town.
Victorian parents will have to fork out thousands more than their interstate counterparts to send their child to a government school.
After rising food and petrol prices, interest rate hikes and Christmas, the mounting cost of sending kids back to school is set to slam families.
Terms such as “mum” and “dad” should be replaced and Christmas and Easter celebrations ditched according to new inclusion guidelines for childcare.
Two private schools in Melbourne’s southeast have opted out of the free kinder program, leaving parents more than $3000 a year out of pocket.
An expert wants kids to delay learning to read because doing so in prep makes them anxious and causes learning problems.
A $31m spending blitz to upgrade more than 270 kindergarten services across the state has been announced. See how much your kinder is getting.
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