Education
Mallacoota receives $2.5 million for new preschool
Fire-ravaged Mallacoota will get a new preschool after the old one was damaged in a storm, forcing children to attend a makeshift kindergarten with no toilets.
- by Adam Carey
Latest
Education
Every Queensland state school to have airconditioning within two years
At the start of the school year, only 142 of 301 state schools on the government's "fast-track" list were airconditioned.
- by Lydia Lynch and Toby Crockford
Education
Australian students failing science: Can you answer these year 6 questions?
Half of all Australian year 10 students do not meet the benchmark for scientific literacy, while year 6 students are only just scraping by. Take the NAPLAN science quiz.
- by Adam Carey
Education
Students to receive mandatory Holocaust lessons to counter anti-Semitism
Year 9 and 10 students will be taught the new curriculum, with Education Minister saying “most kids today wouldn’t be able to explain what the Holocaust was”
- by Paul Sakkal
Education
St Kevin's principal warns parents against 'unsuitable' private tutors
Parents of St Kevin’s boys have been warned they must check with the school’s new child safety officer before engaging with any private tutors.
- by Adam Carey
Bushfires
'Staff are at their wits’ end': After the fires, heavy rain claims Mallacoota's preschool
The bushfire-racked town of Mallacoota is pleading for a new kindergarten after the existing 1970s building was rendered uninhabitable by heavy rain last month.
- by Adam Carey
Education
New principal says St Kevin's needs 'to face some hard questions'
The school's new head has vowed to do everything he can to ensure child safety at the troubled Catholic boys' school, but he was silent on recent teacher departures.
- by Adam Carey
Opinion
Education
Boys' schools must challenge entrenched attitudes
We should take hope that this is a generation which is much more able to express their feelings than those who have gone before them.
- by Chris Middleton
Education
Ramsay Centre signs final university to Western civilisation course
After years of controversy, the Ramsay Centre has signed a deal with a third and final university to offer a Western civilisation degree.
- by Jordan Baker
Education
Violent Perth students expelled, sent to multi-million dollar alternative schools
Violent and out-of-control students will continue to be removed from their schools and placed in multi-million dollar alternative learning settings (ALS) across the Perth metropolitan area.
- by Lauren Pilat
Opinion
Education
More to sex education than condoms on bananas
It is easy to blame parents when their teenage sons are are caught making derogatory remarks about women, or taking photographs up girls' skirts. But it's not that simple.
- by Katrina Marson