Educational Leadership

When the WorldPride celebrations are over, the push to discriminate against gay teachers and kids will continue

A student at a prestigious Catholic boys' school was tormented and taunted by his alleged rapists and rugby teammates on social media, including while he was away from home in a foreign country.

The family of a 15-year-old girl who lives with Down syndrome says she had her enrolment at a Catholic school in Tasmania's north "cancelled" after her parents refused to sign off on the learning plan proposed by the school and submit her to a psychological test.

The principal of a Bendigo school writes to parents after footage emerges of a group of teenagers singing the same sexist chant that caused widespread outrage when it was sung by St Kevin's College students on a Melbourne tram last year.

Police are investigating a 'daily bulletin' sent to year 12 students at a Melbourne high school which named boys as being gay and claimed a girl 'distributed sexual favours'.

Just $3-4 million a year could maintain "affordable choice" for families at Catholic schools, the Grattan Institute said.

The cardinal, for the moment, is the face of clergy sex abuse coverup. His request to have his name removed followed a petition demanding it happen.

Exclusive: Pressure builds on government to apologise, as lawyer likens ‘trail of destruction’ to that wreaked by Catholic church

Leaked documents expose the secret calculations the NSW Catholic school system is using to divert millions of dollars in government funding from poor to rich schools. And data suggests it could be happening in other states.

In the early 20th century, elite boys' schools fostered military cadets, encouraged martial virtue among those they saw as future defenders of the empire and nation, and prized toughness.

One of the country's most prestigious Catholic boys' schools, St Kevin's College, is facing criticism after revelations it did not support a student victim during a child sex offence trial.

This special funding deal will only further stimulate the private school sector and exacerbate segregation by socio-economic status across school sectors.

The Review to Achieve Education Excellence in Schools calls for a “sector-blind” approach to education reform, an approach that will “enable all students to achieve educational excellence”, regardless of their school sector. This latest announcement contradicts the prior policy papers from this government.

The public school sector caters for our society’s most disadvantaged. This is the school sector we should be actively celebrating and supporting through bold federal government initiatives.

Our new Prime Minister suggests his latest cash-splash to the education sector, which indisputably educates the better-off, is a solution to the schools funding wars? This isn't even a cease-fire, writes Jane Caro.

Priests should be banned from being the employers of principals and teachers in Catholic schools, Australia’s royal commission into child sexual abuse has recommended in its final report as it excoriated “almost incomprehensible” failures to report abusers to the police.