10+ hour, 58+ min ago   (458+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:46am School students will be limited to as little as 15 minutes of screen time per day in NSW classrooms as the Minns government seeks to arrest the alarming drop in Australia’s global reading and writing standards. The new policy, announced…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (112+ words) The city’s innovation precincts are brimming with world-class talent, but raising capital is key for start-ups to grow and stay local. High-tech industries including biomedicine and robotics will help future-proof jobs and drive Melbourne’s prosperity, as long as the city…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (785+ words) September 6, 2026 — 7:52pm When Brad Fry arrived as the new principal at Tintern Grammar in 2015, the school was just emerging from a profound period of change. The school that began as a co-educational school had become girls-only before opening a separate campus…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (641+ words) September 1, 2026 — 5:23pm Two senior boys at a public school in Melbourne’s south-east have been expelled because of misogynistic behaviour and threats directed at female staff. The year 12 boys were expelled from Sandringham College last month after consistently disrespecting and refusing to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (617+ words) August 24, 2026 — 12:10pm The heads of all three school sectors will participate in an urgent roundtable crisis talks at the behest of the state’s education minister following a spate of alleged sexual assaults by Sydney schoolboys. Three students from Scots College stand…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1537+ words) His words are scorching: “Visceral anger, deep disappointment, sheer disgust.” They describe his feelings about a school he knows intimately. He’s an ex-Scots College student who completed every year of his education at the all-boys campus in Sydney’s well-heeled eastern…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (432+ words) August 18, 2026 — 2:12pm Education Minister Jason Clare has warned that contentious new legislation that will effectively cap student numbers at universities must guard against “any future potential of a One Nation government,” in yet another sign of the increasing threat represented by…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (509+ words) August 17, 2026 — 7:30pm Parent financial contributions to the state’s public schools have shrunk by millions of dollars in the past year, while principals face $10,000 credit card transaction limits as part of finance reforms they say signals a lack of trust in their…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (27+ words) Victoria's state school teachers have cancelled a strike planned for Wednesday. August 17, 2026 — 6:42pm...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (624+ words) Updated August 17, 2026 — 12:24pm,first published 10:46am Australian Education Union members have voted to accept the state government’s latest pay and conditions offer, calling off a third statewide school strike at the eleventh hour. Teachers, principals and support staff have endorsed a minimum…...