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Students given second chance after selective school exams erupt into chaos

Thousands of students who sat selective exams on Friday will be able to resit tests at public schools after chaos descended on mega centres.

  • Lucy Carroll

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Rail unions want to put domestic violence provisions in place.

WA schools record wave of assault allegations

There have been hundreds of allegations of physical assaults in WA schools, with more than half of the victims aged between 10 and 14.

  • Holly Thompson
Lydon Galea makes cheese sandwiches for kids who might go hungry in school.

How the humble cheese toastie is fighting a hunger crisis in schools

Food charities are seeing an increase in demand from Catholic and private schools as well as public schools.

  • Caroline Hartnett
Wannon candidates: Independent Alex Dyson and sitting Liberal MP Dan Tehan.

Catholic schools election intervention in key seats sparks independents’ ire

Catholic school parents have been urged to consider the funding position of candidates by the powerful Victorian Catholic Education Commission.

  • Chip Le Grand
The resignations come as parents continue to pressure Ballarat Grammar over its response to allegations that up to 10 senior students engaged in sustained physical abuse of younger students.

Key staff at private boarding school step down after ‘strapping’ abuse scandal

The head of Ballarat Grammar’s boarding facility and his deputy have stood down from running Dart House, the principal has told staff.

  • Noel Towell
Mahin Sarker is one of thousands of students taking the 2025 selective schools test.

‘It’s a bit extreme’: Manha’s gruelling daily routine ahead of the selective schools test

Some 17,559 children will sit the selective school test this week for 4200 places. Ninety per cent of them have been coached.

  • Frances Howe
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Pro-Palestine group sends teachers classroom guide challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

Teachers for Palestine want schoolchildren taught about Australian soldiers acting as “enforcers of Empire” in post-WWI Egypt.

  • Alex Crowe and Noel Towell
Xavier College in 2021. The school’s enrolments have dropped almost 20 per cent in five years.

A 20 per cent enrolment fall at private boys’ school is all part of its plan

Of the seven boys’ schools charging more than $30,000 a year – Brighton Grammar, Melbourne Grammar, Scotch College, St Kevin’s, Camberwell Grammar, Trinity Grammar and Xavier College – one stands out.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Teacher Leah Myers completed a second master’s degrees to understand the latest teaching methods.

Universities radically reform teaching degrees as deadline looms

Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.

  • Alex Crowe
Parent WhatsApp groups are renowned for becoming hotbeds of gossip and bullying.

‘Diabolically bad’: When parents’ school WhatsApp groups turn toxic

Gossip and bullying pile-ons are turning parents’ WhatsApp groups into a battleground, and schools are being urged to fight back.

  • Nicole Precel

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