One UNSW Canberra student was so desperate for a home he approached a stranger in a supermarket for help.

Teachers "at the top of their game" should be enticed to regional areas with bonuses and better housing.

John Hammond spoke to Radio 6PR on Thursday morning and confirmed he had been engaged to help stop the attempt to change the school's name to Court Grammar.

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Victorian Education Minister James Merlino has declared he’s serious about reaching a new school funding agreement with the Turnbull government.

Dr Harman thought her study would find the more TV children watched the less time they spent in unstructured play. But that was not the case.

The headmaster of Trinity Grammar has vowed to fight on despite a cloud of uncertainty hanging over his job.

Trinity has offered its deputy principal his job back after a review found that sacking him for cutting a student's hair was unjustified.

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Pressure is growing for an overhaul of NAPLAN, with Victoria becoming the latest state to call for a review of the compulsory literacy and numeracy test.

Eighty per cent of participants in Canberra PCYC's Project Booyah graduate from the program, but its funding has come to an end.

With costs rising faster for renters, young people could be tempted to stay at home with their parents for even longer.

Victorian independent schools are spending seven times more per student on buildings projects than state schools.

More than 90 per cent of teachers surveyed by the Australian Education Union called for a review of NAPLAN.

Until recently, Xialene Chang thought attending an American university was just something you saw on television.

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For some Sydney students, a trip to school is a two-hour journey across the city.

Results for students already at the bottom of the curve have fallen faster and further than those at the top.

A new method of teaching could be trialed in NSW schools within the next two years.

Doveton College doesn’t just enrol students, it enrols families.

Education expert Sir Ken Robinson says schools are stifling creativity and failing to prepare students for the real world. We need more dancing.

"It seems like the current policy is that principals are free to make any decisions they want in their schools with no accountability."

A Victorian teacher who admitted to grooming a 15-year-old girl for sex almost four decades ago has been allowed to continue working in schools.

The man was suspended on March 16 as the University of Queensland asked him to respond to a report into the matter. He resigned a week later.

Reports of widespread anger over principal's comments about gender are exaggerated, parents say.

Trinity's remaining school council members will progressively stand down, with its chairman describing the scenes that have unfolded as "extremely unfortunate".

The former NSW chief scientist and engineer has welcomed education minister raising the issue of STEM.

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Teachers who pose a risk to children's safety will be barred from working in Victorian schools under a state government overhaul of the teaching watchdog.

STEM has attracted national attention in recent years, but the NSW education, Rob Stokes, says it has now come an educational fad.

The sacked deputy principal at the centre of the scandal engulfing Trinity Grammar has called on his former students to end their casual clothes protest.

In May, Jade Moxey will represent Australia at the world's largest international science research competition for school students, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

Fierce if friendly battles for supremacy at robotics rescue, soccer and, increasingly, dance contests is where STEM skills and the arts converge.