Education

Strikes, or the threat of them, may prove a potent force for change at some universities.

The global education business has offered a positive outlook, underscoring its resilience after being battered by the pandemic.

A western suburbs primary school will close its doors at the end of 2023, just months after celebrating 125 years.

Western Australia’s international education industry is poised for a much-needed boost thanks to the state government’s $10 million agent incentive scheme.

The Morrison government’s Job Ready Graduates package of reforms reduced student tuition fees in fields expected to produce the most job growth, while increasing fees for courses seen as less vital to the economy.

Staff at a West Australian university have become embroiled in an unusual industrial dispute over the right to not answer phone calls or emails.

Donna Faragher is hoping common sense prevails as parliament delves into the complexities of the state’s child development services.

Always on the lookout for plagiarism in students’ work, universities also must contend with a barrage of online cheating services.

Rate My Professors will do little to improve teaching and learning.

A new state school-based innovation program is part of a plan to focus more teaching on future-facing skills.

Escalating financial management problems have done little to dint a broad recovery in the state’s university sector.

Despite strong support for mask wearing at schools, few seem interested in it becoming a legal requirement.

For most of us, passion comes a distant second to practicality when it comes to the weekly grind.

Murdoch has improved its standing in a major global university ranking with UWA narrowly retaining a spot in the list's top 100.

University leaders need to prepare graduates to be able to play a valuable role in the gig economy.

The first primary school out of two proposed educational facilities to be built by 2024 has been approved by a state government planning assessment body.

Runaway inflation and anaemic wages growth could bite for WA’s cash-flush universities.

The state government’s $22 million proposal for a new primary school in Hammond Park will be considered by its own planning body next week.

Police have been asked by the University of Western Australia to investigate a data breach which may have compromised student grades, identification, images and more.

There is a compelling case for the higher education sector to embrace a broader conception of international education.

With strokes contributing to the loss of 10,000 lives in Australia last year, UWA’s new chair in stroke research wants greater focus on prevention.

Murdoch University has officially named its Building 360 development.

First-mover advantage awaits a WA university willing to offer an apprenticeship degree.

Valerie Gould's tenure atop the state's independent schools body will come to a close this year with UWA's director of student life stepping in as her replacement.

Several leading girls’ schools are buying tracts of land in the South West with backing from their foundations.

A longstanding university practice is increasingly a cause for controversy.

Reforming childcare and higher education policy shape as top priorities for Labor in its first term in government.

CLIMATE change, an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and preserving superannuation may have come in ahead of universal childcare in Anthony Albanese’s victory speech, but the issue will no doubt be a metric by which his government is judged during the next three years.

The state government has chosen Parry and Rosenthal Architects to design $13.9 million worth of upgrades at a Kingsley school.

Murdoch University has blamed the COVID pandemic for derailing its $250 million inner city campus proposal, which had been predicated on an increase in international students.

WA's teachers' union has accepted the state government's contentious offer of a 2.75 per cent pay increase and signed off on a new, two-year agreement.

With no clear alternative to compare secondary students across schools, ATAR will likely remain the standard, despite some high-profile opposition.