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Australia is facing an “unprecedented” teacher shortage. The federal government projects a shortfall of more than 4,000 high school teachers by 2025, but shortages are being felt across the board, especially in rural and remote schools, and in maths and science.

Bike riders have always faced aggression from car drivers. But they now find themselves on the latest front in the culture wars – with anger whipped up by the rightwing press

A teenage boy is sentenced to at least two months in youth detention for raping a fellow student from a Blue Mountains high school during a house party in 2019.

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation was recently called to a Sydney High school to remove a radioactive rock and clean the site.

Higher paid roles could be offered to outstanding teachers to keep the best teachers in NSW classrooms but unions say it will pit teachers against each other.

MORNING BRIEFING: It is hoped a better system for rewarding and retaining top teachers may also help attract more people to the profession.

This week, teachers in New South Wales learned they were going to get a “helping hand” preparing lessons from the start of term 4.

The family of a severely disabled child, who is bound for a notoriously violent rural high school, fear a bump or knock could cost him his life.

Parents confront the NSW Education Minister during a visit to Walgett Community College, which has been impacted by violence and poor educational standards for many years, to demand an intervention.

Introducing universal pre-kindergarten in NSW is seen as an opportunity to reduce classroom age gaps, which currently can be as large as 18 months.

The NSW Teachers Federation has labelled the plan as "nothing more than window dressing".