Claudia Long

Students of a "world-class" agricultural school are stuck in hot, uncomfortable temporary classrooms as they wait for their promised "state-of-the-art" facilities to be built.

The agreement is the first of eight that need to be negotiated with state and territory governments this year.

The consumer regulator is calling for governments to directly intervene in the childcare market to ensure all families can access the services they need.

More parents than ever are turning to charities for assistance to help afford school basics, from the right uniforms and shoes, to extensive textbook and stationery lists.

Parents are being squeezed by the cost of sending kids to school, whether their children are attending public or private, according to two new studies.

City public primary schools have dominated the list of high-performing schools, according to analysis of NAPLAN data, as school results are released today. 

Public schools must be fully funded to combat inequality and all students should be regularly screened to see if they need additional support, a major review into school resourcing has found. 

Students throughout the world have fallen behind on reading and maths during the pandemic, but Australian teens have managed to buck the trend.

Australia's teachers are not equipped to deal with rising levels of disruption in classrooms, a Senate inquiry has found, while calling for students to be taught how to behave.

The productivity commission is urging the federal government to modify the childcare subsidy to increase access to early childhood education for children from all backgrounds.

Education ministers from around the country are proposing major changes at universities to bring down rates of sexual violence in tertiary education settings.

Australian universities have signed on to a new charter on sexual harm, committing to more public reporting and community education on sexual violence, but student advocates say it is little more than a "recycled" version of commitments first agreed to six years ago.

The University of Tasmania admits staff failed to intervene when they became aware a student was allegedly sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by a staff member.

An inquiry into attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has called for a national consistency in diagnosis and treatment to improve the lives of those with the condition.

Tertiary students could soon have a new watchdog holding universities to account, but some warn that it must have strong powers.

The federal education minister is flagging a possible overhaul of the tertiary education regulator amid fears the threshold for triggering investigations into the mishandling of sexual violence matters is too high.

The disability royal commission's report has been described by advocates as a turning point towards a fully inclusive and de-segregated Australia — but they warn the recommendations must be acted on.

A landmark Senate inquiry into sexual consent laws recommends the federal government immediately establish an independent taskforce to hold universities and colleges to account on sexual violence.

The federal government is set to repeal the Disability Services Act and replace it with a new set of standards, which the Greens say is an opportunity to end the segregation of many disabled people from the rest of the community.

Students detail consistent mishandling of sexual violence complaints as part of the biggest review of the university sector in years.

It follows pressure from endometriosis sufferers and the opposition to set up clinics in those locations, after 20 others were established around the country earlier in the year.

Stronger age verification processes are needed on sites used by children to help prevent them being coerced into making sexual abuse material, according to the eSafety commissioner.

There are fears the university sector's highly casualised workforce is preventing people from reporting experiences of sexual violence at work. 

More than 50,000 people with endometriosis have helped map the impact of the condition around the country, as the federal opposition calls on the government to expand its new pelvic pain clinics.

The eSafety commissioner is calling on the tech industry to step up protections around generative AI as the authority logs its first report of sexually explicit artificially generated imagery being used by children to bully others.