Across Australia, young kids are going to school riddled with anxiety and fear over what insidious bullying could await them after entering the school gates. These are their stories.
A national survey of parents has uncovered sky-high rates of bullying – and heaped pressure on governments to take a national approach to tackle the harmful behaviour.
A new report has revealed Australian students’ understanding about our political system and democratic principles has dropped to the lowest level in two decades. Test yourself.
When Neerim parents discovered their local school faced permanent closure, the community made a plan for it to reopen.
The 2024 PM’s Spelling Bee saw a record-breaking 70,557 student registrations – now 4500 of them head to finals. See the top state and territory results.
Longer hours and increased workloads are driving teachers in regional Australia to want to quit the profession before retirement age.
Truancy rates in Australia are worse than they were a decade ago, with the gap in attendance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students widening.
As experts call for a return to more explicit teaching in the wake of the nation’s NAPLAN results, teachers lead the charge with record students numbers in the PM’s Spelling Bee.
Jules Robinson has welcomed son #2 with hubby Cam Merchant just months after launching her first book Ask Jules. Now they’re renovating — but their next project together might surprise you.
More than 35,000 Aussie students have been registered to take part in the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, as the mother of last year’s champion reveals how taking part in the competition helped her son.
Fergus Hamilton has his sights set on gold at the Paris Olympics this month. But he credits his success to his time spent at boarding school.
For some rural families, limited local education forces parents to either pack up and move, or send their children to boarding school.
For many regional kids, making the leap from their hometown school to a boarding school in a major city can be a daunting prospect.
Regional Victorian primary schools are generating a fraction of the revenue of independent high schools, income data has shown.
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