Education

Changes to the NSW high school syllabus will now require students to learn about First Nations experiences and colonisation.

Parents, authors, and a group of major publishing companies, including Penguin Random House, have sued Florida over certain book bans

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the first university to release enrolment data since the affirmative action ban.

The Government will introduce changes to the way HECs debt is calculation through indexation in Parliament today.

Childcare educators are getting a 15% pay rise under the Government’s cash splash for the sector dominated by women.

Majority jurisdictions say they won’t sign the “Better and Fairer Schools Agreement” unless the Federal Government increases its funding.

Louisiana public schools must now display a copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom by 1 January 2025.

A study launched in 1990 tracking 167 babies recently handed down its final report on inequality in Australia.

Data compared from 24 countries in 2022 found that Australia ranked second-worst for bullying, behind Latvia.

Physical violence against school principals has increased by nearly 80% since the Australian Catholic University started to collect data.

Today’s announcement means all public schools in the NT are expected to meet the SRS by 2029.

The ‘retention rate’ refers to the number of full-time Year 10 students who continue their schooling to Year 12.

This week, the WA government announced it would increase public school funding from 95% to 100% in the next two years.

A phone ban for childcare workers has been recommended to Australia’s governments to improve learning and safety in the classroom.

A global report into school education shows Australia’s ranking has climbed, but students from disadvantaged backgrounds are worse off.

California has passed a law to introduce media literacy classes in all schools across the U.S. state, the fourth state to do so.

Childcare in Australia should be free or inexpensive for low-income families, a report from a government agency has said.

Flexible school hours in Queensland will be investigated by external officials before being approved under a new policy.

Thousands of teachers across South Australia went on strike yesterday.

The Federal Government has announced a scholarship program to attract more people to teaching amid growing concerns of a national shortage.

Federal, state and territory governments have launched a national recruitment campaign aimed at encouraging more people to become teachers.

The Higher School Certificate (HSC), NSW’s final exams, is officially underway for more than 68,000 school leavers in the state.

An artificial intelligence (AI) trial is underway in QLD schools after Australia’s education ministers met to discuss AI use in classrooms last week.

A statewide ban on phones in all NSW public schools comes into effect today. The ban coincides with the start of Term 4.

Last week, The Daily Aus asked you for your thoughts on single-sex education. Here’s what the audience told us.

South Korea has passed new teacher protection laws aimed at preventing mistreatment by parents.

Some NSW teachers will get a $10,000 pay rise under a new deal proposed by the State Government. One final approval is now needed.