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Olivia Jenkins is a crime reporter for the Herald Sun in Melbourne. She has previously covered education and general news.

After braving Covid and recent floods, the nervous wait for year 12 students to get their ATARs is almost over.

Aussie school kids talk back to teachers, are disruptive, prone to outbursts and have been rated among the world’s worst behaved.

Victoria Police has investigated a huge number of cases of sexual touching and sexual harassment at schools, worrying data reveals.

A new survey — which has for the first time measured the true effects of Covid on Australians — shows Melbourne was the hardest hit area.

A special school in Melbourne’s north is so crowded students are missing up to 20 hours of class weekly as parents desperately call for funding.

The failed school in Kilmore could be given a lifeline under a bold proposal to have students back for term one next year.

Box Hill Institute must pay aviation students $33m after a court heard teaching standards were so low that a trainee pilot was almost killed.

Monash University staff could be fired if they do not complete a compulsory training program on Indigenous history.

Droves of teaching students have considered dropping out over “debilitating” course fees and unpaid training requirements.

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The National Tertiary Education Union said Deakin University’s response to claims of wage theft had so far been “appalling”.