More than a dozen schoolchildren were left stranded on a ride at a Western Sydney school, following a malfunction which sparked a dramatic rescue.
Harvey Constable
Fee-free TAFE spots will be available for another year after Skills and TAFE Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson announced more than $200 million would be included for the sector in next week’s State budget.
Oliver Lane
World leading technology is coming to a WA University in a bid to develop revolutionary tools for illicit substance testing and forensic research, to be used to streamline our justice system.
Kirsty Lichtenstein
Falling apart classrooms and inadequate facilities have WA’s independent schools pleading for $25 million in taxpayer funds from the State Government in the upcoming Budget.
Brooke Rolfe
A mother, whose daughter attended a childcare centre where an accused pedophile once worked, has questioned why it took so long to shut the facility down.
Nick Wilson and Kaaren Morrissey
Fed-up public-sector teachers have accepted a fair pay deal with a state government following a bitter industrial dispute.
Allanah Sciberras
The University of Western Australia is investigating an exam glitch after test questions dissolving into unreadable strings of text became a real-life nightmare for hundreds of students this week.
Bethany Hiatt
The number of education bureaucrats working in head office has ballooned by 40 per cent in the past five years — growing at more than double the rate of teachers — figures released in Parliament have revealed.
The University of Western Australia has unveiled details of three new bridging courses for students who may have skipped the traditional Year 12 pathway — or didn’t achieve the admission score they’d hoped for.
Cowaramup Primary School is set for a major boost, with a $10.7 million investment announced for a new early childhood education block as part of the State Government’s 2026–27 Budget.
Madelin Hayes
Fear, stress and embarrassment at the thought of using school toilets is forcing about half of WA children to ‘hold on’, worrying survey results reveal.
A former Queensland Labor MP who recently died while still serving in parliament has been remembered by friends and family as a complicated and caring individual.
Jack Nivison
Cowaramup Primary School will receive $10.7 million for a new early childhood education block under the State Government’s 2026-27 Budget.
The Cook Government has been accused of playing catch up on education as it outlines a $2.1 billion spend over the next four years to fix overcrowded classrooms and ageing schools.
A major update has emerged after a young boy was dragged down the road by a bus, after his arm got caught while trying to leave the vehicle.
Alexandra Feiam
A game where teens stalk and shoot each other using water guns — prompting police warnings in Australia and overseas — has become wildly popular in Perth.
A Hazmat incident warning is still in place on Sunday as firefighters continued to remove hazardous materials from the site in Maddington, seven days after the facility went up in flames on April 12.
Childhood is becoming sanitised and over-scheduled to the point that some kids are fearful of germs and dirt, with experts warning of lifelong mental and physical health impacts.
Rhianna Mitchell
A former private school pupil has become the first person in his state to admit creating sexually explicit deepfakes.
David Hannant
Family members of a young girl have paid tribute to the “lovely, shy, caring, and remarkably mature” after she drowned at a popular swimming spot.
Blake Antrobus
Premier Roger Cook confirmed if a Mandurah private school’s decision to install doorbell-style cameras outside toilets blocks will be rolled out in the public system.
Oliver Lane and Bethany Hiatt
A private high school in Mandurah is using doorbell-style cameras to track students visiting toilet blocks during lessons in a bid to stamp out anti-social behaviour.
A new troop of technology grads are filing into Bankwest guided by a mantra to not be afraid of artificial intelligence taking their jobs, but rather the peer who wields the tool better than they can.
Simone Grogan
Public school educators are moving ahead with plans for a wave of rolling strikes as pay and condition negotiations stall with a state government.
William Ton
