Primary Education

Experts warn Australia's education system is "failing to deliver" for half a million kids and putting their future wellbeing at risk, but lessons from 2024 offer hope.

George Williams has managed to give discarded farm parts a new life while living and learning on a remote cattle station.  

Ahead of a return to school, the union says the teacher shortage is a crisis that still spans across Queensland.

When the ABC visited Alpurrurulam, a tiny outback town on the Northern Territory-Queensland border, all anyone in town wanted to talk about was what was happening at the local school.

Vanessa Alford moved across the country so her children could attend a primary school in Brisbane — one of very few that provides a specialist program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. But what happens when kids go to high school?

Primary school children are being taught the building blocks of language via a method that has had proven success overseas.

Girls have fallen behind boys in both maths and science subjects, making Australia's education gender gap the worst in the world, the latest results from a long-running international test show.

On Western Australia's remote south coast, Jerdacuttup Primary School has only six students enrolled. But the teachers, parents and children are determined to keep the doors open.

A Perth man who abducted a nine-year-old girl as she walked to school by luring her into his car with a plea to help him find a lost puppy is jailed.

A video game is using real-life scams to teach school students how to detect deepfakes. Try the quiz here, to see if you can spot fraudsters online.

For the first time last year students across Victoria were asked a simple but complicated question, have you experienced racism?

Teacher's debut picture book based on her daughter's telltale messy hair hopes to inspire children to unplug from screens and make their own adventures outdoors.

The finalists tackled words such as "precipice", "circuitous" and "rockabilly" in the quest to find the state's best speller.

Public school teachers in NSW are set to receive a 10 per cent pay increase over three years, along with two extra staff development days per year. The extra pupil free days have sparked fears of the impact on working parents.

The NSW mother is giving up hours of paid work each week to lead ethics classes as a volunteer at her son's primary school, as a shortage of teachers stops schools from offering them.

The state government announcement of free kids' summer swimming lessons led to a rush in enrolments and many parents are unhappy that their children will now miss out.

The LNP announces a plan to create four new early intervention schools for youth at risk of entering a life of crime. But the state government says the funding announcement doesn't add up. 

Finding the best school for a child can be a daunting decision for parents and one which experts say should be based on the individual learning style of each child.

Hugo the wellbeing dog brings a range of benefits to this South Australian public school, but the principal warns that research is needed before bringing a pet into the classroom.

Former rugby union Wallaby Adrian "Moose" Skeggs grew up playing in nature and going to school barefoot on remote Lord Howe Island. Here's why he has returned to his childhood home to raise his son.