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Camberwell High School principal Jillian Laughlin and international students Ryan Shan and Meilee Rianrukwong.

Victorian state schools court lucrative international students

Victoria has attracted far more international students than any other jurisdiction for several years.

  • Alex Crowe

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WAToday homepage image - school aged population growth by suburb 2031-2041.

The number of school students forecast for every suburb in WA

Predictions show the state will grow by thousands of students between 2021 and 2041. Here’s where they are more likely to live, and the areas that will need the infrastructure to support the boom.

  • Holly Thompson
Students protesting at Granville Boys High School on Wednesday.

Students protest at Sydney school after Muslim staffer told to work from home

Granville Boys High student support officer Sheikh Wesam Charkawi was ordered to remove social media posts where he downplayed antisemitic comments made by two Sydney nurses.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
Ballarat Grammar principal Adam Heath said at least 10 current senior students had a “perverse sense of justice”.

40 years ago, I was abused at Ballarat Grammar. I know first-hand that change is possible

My school reunion took me back to my worst experiences at my alma mater. These new allegations of student-on-student abuse are shocking, but eerily familiar to those who experienced similar “rituals”.

  • Michael Short
Documents dated from April last year include 21 public education system targets developed by the education department.

Revealed: The secret performance targets for our schools

Performance goals that have been kept from the public for months reveal what parents really think about their children’s school.

  • Lucy Carroll
Fake, sexually explicit images of students from Gladstone Park Secondary College were circulated online.

Year 11 students suspended after AI fake nudes circulated online

Police said an unknown number of fake nudes of female students, generated by artificial intelligence, were released on the internet. 

  • Daniella White
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Freshwater High school captains Sebastian Rayel and Sophie Rawstorne.

Parents plan legal challenge over Sydney high school’s controversial changes

Parents this week launched a fundraising campaign to raise $20,000 in a bid to stop the senior campus from being dismantled.

  • Christopher Harris
Independent schools have recorded the highest growth in enrolments over the past year.

WA families are increasingly choosing private schools, despite rising fees

Independent schools in WA recorded the highest growth in full-time enrolments nationally last year.

  • Holly Thompson
For Labor, the road to Parliament House runs through the Federal Labor Business Forum.

Seven in 10 high school students fail civics and citizenship tests

The latest results come amid a loss of faith in democracy and political institutions, rising antisemitic attacks and a breakdown in social cohesion.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
Rebecca King and her daughter daughter Maddy.

Girls lead exodus as parents choose private and Catholic schools

Thousands more NSW parents are choosing Catholic and private schools for their children amid an exodus from public education.

  • Christopher Harris and Craig Butt

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