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Employers must provide information about face-to-face teaching hours, extracurricular requirements and release time for senior teachers.

‘Big breakthrough’: Private schools to disclose teachers’ extra hours under new deal

Private schools will need to be upfront with teachers about how many hours they will need to spend running extracurricular activities under a new pay deal.

  • Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll

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The number of students wanting to study economics at university has been falling.

Want more economics students? Drop the obsession with maths

Fewer students are studying economics at high school, and few of those go onto a dedicated economics course at university. And that’s a problem.

  • Ross Gittins
The family Ruffles: Vincent, Jai, Kim and Michael.

I love my children, but sheesh it’s time they went to school. These holidays have gone on forever

If parenthood is about anything, it’s about marking milestones. First steps, first words, first teeth. The first day of school can’t come quickly enough.

  • Michael Ruffles
Rosebank College

‘Demand is there’: Sydney private high school opens doors to years 5 and 6

Rosebank College will expand to take primary years, while an all-boys north shore private secondary school says opening primary grades is under “ongoing consideration”.

  • Lucy Carroll
Liv Monaghan and Cain Roberts drop of their daughter Peggy for Peggy’s first day of Prep at South Melbourne Primary School.

As preppies start their first day, a principal reflects on missing his

When five-year-old Tyra Zuidam locked eyes with fellow prep student Harrison Castelino at the school gates, they fell into each other’s arms in relief. 

  • Nicole Precel
Any one primary school class will contain students as much as five years apart in maths skills, and teachers struggle to differentiate the lessons.

New primary schools announced for Perth’s booming suburbs

The new schools will open at the beginning of the 2027 school year and cater to rapidly growing suburbs in the city’s north and south.

  • Holly Thompson
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Hirsh Modi.

As public school enrolments fall, boys’ schools are bucking the trend

Hirsh Modi is one of hundreds of additional boys headed for single-sex schooling this year.

  • Christopher Harris
Belleville run Project Stationary, which collecting unused school supplies and repackages them.

How parents are erasing stationery waste

Vast quantities of costly school stationery goes to waste each year.

  • Noel Towell
Photo of Rabbi Effy Block at his hhomr in St Kilda on Wednesday 22 January 2025. Photo THE AGE/ LUIS ENRIQUE ASCUI

‘Tension is much higher now’: Jewish students told not to wear uniforms amid antisemitic attacks

An attack on a childcare centre in Sydney has increased security concerns for Jewish educators already on edge.

  • Alex Crowe
The new Wentworth Point High School on the banks of the Parramatta River.

The suburb with no houses gets a $160 million high-rise school

Nestled on a peninsula on the banks of the Parramatta River, the six-storey, vertical Wentworth Point High School is in one of the most densely populated suburbs in the country.

  • Christopher Harris

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