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Are trainee teachers smarter than a 9th graders? The LANTITE test shows nearly 12 per cent of aspiring teachers fail the year 9-standard test at the first time of asking.

Trainee teacher test shows record first-time fails – would you pass it?

Aspiring teachers are struggling to show they are as smart as ninth graders, with 3000 failing to pass the benchmark LANTITE test last year. Take the quiz and see if you’d pass.

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SUNDAY ESCAPE. BABYMOONS. SARAH NICHOLSON. Picture: iStock

Soft-porn pregnancies and other parenting trends to avoid right now

Who needs B-listers with F-cups in G-strings looking sexy while breastfeeding? Here are the parenting trends to avoid, says Susie O’Brien

DAILY TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 4, 2025. A mother with her son that used to attend First Steps Learning Academy Bangor before leaving due to safety concerns. This week the same childcare centre gave the wrong baby to a grandfather to take home. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Regulator reminds childcare operators how not to lose, leave or lock up kids

Childcare operators are being given guidance on how not to lose, leave or lock up kids by the federal regulator, after failings were highlighted by a series of worrying incidents.

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October 01 2025 Trinity College best schools. School captains, Erin Doudle (R) and Dalton Stedall. Picture: RoyVPhotography

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Education innovators: 34 Aussie schools named on ‘five-star’ list

From cutting-edge career programs to ‘a beacon of holistic development’, Australia’s most forward-thinking schools have been recognised in a new education power list.

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Ebony Thompson was 22 months old when she died after suffering from a medical incident at the Humpty Doo Community and Child Care Centre on August 30, 2023. Picture: Supplied

Grieving family prepare for inquest into NT childcare centre death

The grieving parents of a little girl have released a heartbreaking photo of her, ahead of the coronial inquest into a fatal medical incident at a Top End childcare centre.

The first day of school for 2025 was marked with a parents and kids breakfast at Ludmilla Primary.

Back to school: Territory kids excited to return to the classroom

‘Very excited’: About 34,000 students and 3500 teachers returned to the NT’s 153 government schools, including more than 150 new teachers starting their teaching careers in the Territory.

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Berry Springs Preschool teacher Carla Hayes helps Ruby during class.

NT community fights to keep popular preschool program

A popular preschool trial has been quietly scrapped by the CLP, leading to members of a rural community to fight for it to be reinstated.

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Zuccoli Primary School. Picture: Facebook

New demountables arrive early for Top End school with growing pains

A Palmerston primary school that exceeded its built capacity by 13 per cent last year, despite only opening in 2020, will have six demountable classrooms this year, with the department promising an end to makeshift learning spaces.

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Designs for the new $10m Parap Pre-School

Pre-school hits new milestone as bold designs revealed

The designs for a new pre-school have been revealed with just weeks to go until the old facility is completely demolished. See them all.

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