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The 2025 SMH School Summit.

The major NAPLAN change coming to schools

Teachers will get maths and reading results almost instantly under a plan by the national curriculum authority.

  • Nick Newling

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The 2025 SMH Schools Summit.

SMH Schools Summit 2025 as it happened: Prue Car speaks after funding deal, selective schools in the spotlight

Sydney’s education thought leaders have gathered at ICC Sydney for The Sydney Morning Herald School Summit.

  • Nick Newling
Changed catchment zones for Killara High School

This north shore school catchment shake-up blindsided parents. Now there’s a delay

A controversial change to the catchment zone of one of Sydney’s top-performing comprehensive schools, Killara High, has been pushed back.

  • Nick Newling
Changed catchment zones for Killara High School

It’s one of the north shore’s most prized school catchments - and it just shrank

Families pay a median price of $3.3 million to live in Killara. Now, many of them won’t get their kids into Killara High.

  • Nick Newling
Parent satisfaction rates at public schools have fallen to 10-year lows.

Parent satisfaction with public schools worse than during COVID

More than one in four parents with children in state secondary schools were dissatisfied with their school, the most recent Education Department data reveals.

  • Daniella White
Long-serving Ballarat Grammar headmaster G. F. J. “Jack” Dart, pictured with school prefects and probationers.

‘It was a very brutal five years’: A private school scandal decades in the making

Mistreatment by seniors at Ballarat Grammar dating back decades has come to light as the school grapples with a punishment culture not confined to just one prestigious boarding school.

  • Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle
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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
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

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