Police will not take any further action against year 10 Haileybury boys who shared a “distressing” sexually explicit image, sparking outrage from women’s groups and cyber safety experts.
An education support staff member who was employed at a northern suburbs primary school will face court next month for alleged child safety offences.
Victoria’s education system is on the brink of crisis as more principals threaten to quit, left drained by repeat threats, demanding workloads and putting themselves in harm’s way as schoolyard violence soars.
Parents at a high school in Melbourne’s northern suburbs say “no one cares” that someone is going “to die” as students ramp up relentless bullying attacks and allegedly threaten each other with knives.
Schools are being blamed for a rise in year 12s opting to study an unscored VCE program amid allegations they’re “managing out” students with low grades to protect their VCE performance scores.
The entire performing arts faculty at Lyndale Secondary College walked off the job in protest last year. Now a formal complaint to the Education Department has revealed why.
Enrolments at special assistance and alternative schools have almost tripled in the past decade, as more parents seek non-traditional education to support their children’s needs. See the schools in your area taking a different approach.
Twice as many would-be teachers are now failing an essential literacy test graduates are required to pass before stepping into the classroom compared to 2016. Take the quiz to see if you can do better.
A female Carey Grammar teacher, who was sacked in 2023, sent 35,000 messages to one of her students before having a sexual relationship with them.
Complaints over sexual harassment, stalking, unwelcome advances and inappropriate comments and have hit a record high at the University of Melbourne, with dozens of staff and students investigated.
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