The removal of the Federal Government's Schoolkids Bonus and the introduction of Bring Your Own Device policies, has many parents reporting an increase in school costs this year.
The school year is starting and that means teachers and students alike are settling into a new routine. Imagine if you had to settle into a new country and culture as well. Australia Plus spoke to four Australian teachers who ended up overseas after taking different teaching paths across the world.
The use of technology in primary school classrooms is a divisive issue among parents and teachers, so are there any proven benefits of children using devices such as tablets?
Workshops aimed at teaching young women how to use tools are being offered around the country in a bid to break the gender imbalance and boost the number of female tradies.
A new policy for transgender and intersex students, which includes allowing students to use the toilets of the gender they identify with, will be in place at South Australian public schools this year.
Thousands of school leavers hoping to study further will today find out whether they achieved the ATAR scores they needed to enter their courses of choice.
The craze of bottle flipping has been labelled noisy, annoying and addictive, but while some schools are banning the pastime, one is turning it into a competitive sport to teach students about probability.
At a council reserve on the NSW mid-north coast, children attend a school where they spend their entire day in the wild — an increasingly popular movement designed to build character and improve creativity.
Queensland children as young as four are set to learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education in a bid to prepare them for the jobs of the future.