A Queensland teenager has farewelled her sister and boyfriend after they died falling from Mount Beerwah in a tragic hiking incident.
Emma Kirk
A life-changing program that uses boys’ passion for sport to keep them coming to school has enrolled a record number of First Nations students in Year 12 this year.
Bethany Hiatt
A former senior judge who allegedly showed child abuse images to university students will potentially face new charges across two states.
Liam Beatty
Soaring fuel prices are forcing schools across Australia to cancel outdoor excursions, sparking concern over children’s physical activity and health.
Andrew Hedgman
A casual music teacher at an elite Sydney school charged with allegedly offering a 14-year-old girl money in exchange for sexually explicit material has been named.
David Hannant
Former Busselton Senior High student Joshua Snow has been named a 2026 Sir John Monash Scholar – one of Australia’s most prestigious postgraduate honours.
Madelin Hayes
Two WA universities are rated among the top 10 institutions in the world for mining engineering, the latest global subject rankings reveal.
Plans to build the first public school in East Perth have been given a major boost, with DevelopmentWA giving developmental approval.
Oliver Lane
An outside school hours childcare service has been fined $25,000 after a seven-year-old was left on a bus in 39C heat.
Australia is unprepared for the “harsh new reality” of world war, a Liberal MP has warned in a rousing plea for “reindustrialisation”.
Nathan Schmidt
Some of the lowest-paid teachers in the so-called education state are going on strike to demand their pay packets catch up to their peers across the nation.
William Ton
Bizarre scenes have erupted during an “unprecedented” teachers’ strike which has resulted in 35,000 educators walking off the job.
The Premier’s reading challenge is embracing technology, and a record number of early registrations, in its fifth year.
Jessica Page
Tens of thousands of angry teachers have disrupted schools and shut down major city streets to demand better pay and conditions.
Callum Godde, William Ton and Ethan James
WA teachers could soon each have their own robot assistant to take over time-consuming tasks such as setting lesson plans.
The Cook Government has been accused of failing to provide WA kids with the same protections in day care as those in the rest of the country, after it took more than a year to pass new laws to keep them safe.
Residents of a quiet pocket in Perth’s north-east are up in arms as the local council considers plans for a three-storey data centre next to a school.
Fraser Williams
Taxpayers are forking out millions of dollars a year just for school maintenance issues to be recorded by government bureaucracy — before repair work even starts.
A teenager has been arrested after allegedly firing an airgun at another student, forcing a prestigious secondary school into lockdown.
Georgia Palgan
St Patrick’s School in Katanning honoured its 100-year milestone at the weekend with an all-day celebration that brought students and educators past and present back to the school.
Amy Towers
Students from around the Great Southern were able to design, build and race their own solar powered car as part of the Synergy Schools Solar Challenge.
Australian universities have improperly used confidentiality clauses while claiming “zero tolerance” for gender-based violence.
Abisha Sapkota
A worrying pattern of declining mental health and rising developmental concerns is emerging in WA’s youth, according to new report from the Commissioner for Children and Young People.
Rhianna Mitchell
Brains can sometimes enter brief periods of sleep-like activity when when they need a break from difficult tasks but this is amplified for those with ADHD, new Australian research has revealed.
Claire Sadler
