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Michael Kable was teaching a classroom of teenagers at Maitland Grossman High School in March when he admitted he snapped and punched a 14-year-old.

French President Emmanuel Macron is heading to the scene of the suspected terror attack, in the northern city of Arras.

The HSC exam period will run until Friday November 3.

From today onwards, students will be told to hand their phones in at the start of the day.

Sydney Airport and the roads are bustling already but no significant delays have been recorded as of yet.

The change comes after community consultation showed strong support for changing the schools from single-sex to co-education.

A chaotic scuffle broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a gridiron game.

The temperature in Sydney soared to more than 15C above average, while parts of the NSW Far South Coast reached a "catastrophic" fire rating.

"Scared" children as young as six were forced to hide under desks for most of the afternoon as police swarmed the suburb.

The scholarships will be available to all students who enrol in secondary school teaching degrees in 2024 and 2025.

Premier Chris Minns on Monday released a list of 15 schools to be built in the region over the next four years, in a bid to address a backlog of projects for booming suburbs.

The new agreement, which will affect 95,000 teachers across the state, will come into effect on October 9.

Thousands of teachers descended on state parliament demanding better pay and conditions.

The blaze destroyed five classrooms and a canteen, leaving students 'devastated'.

Muslims in France face strict limits on their display of religious conviction

Heartbroken families at a Melbourne special needs school are at their wits' end.

Another three teenage girls have been arrested after four teachers were allegedly assaulted trying to break up a vicious attack at a Melbourne school.

The school was put into lockdown after the girl was allegedly attacked just as classes were starting.

The local school community in Ohio has been left devastated after the fatal collision.

NAPLAN standards have been revised upwards for this year.

Australian Sign Language also known as Auslan will be offered as an elective to increase inclusiveness and address a shortage of interpreters.

Teachers at Adelaide East Primary School received an anonymous email warning that pipe bombs had been planted on the grounds.

Families of preschool students are outraged their children are asked to make "sorry" cards to First Nations people for the actions of colonisers.

A former English teacher allegedly sought out female students at three Sydney schools where he worked over more than two decades.

It's believed none of the children have serious injuries.

More than 20 students were onboard a bus when it caught fire out the front of two schools in Sydney's south this afternoon.

A former Sydney teacher who admitted using his authority to prey on girls he taught and covertly film them in class has been jailed for at least six months.

The controversial move comes as the system struggles to cope with the expanded free kinder program.

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An Adelaide teen fell or leaped into the water to save his classmate. His school failed to keep them all safe.

See a full list of holiday dates for each state and territory's government schools here.

In a remote patch of a long-closed Native American boarding school, near a canal and some railroad tracks, Nebraska’s state archeologist and two teammates filled buckets with dirt and sifted through it as if they were searching for gold.

A second eight-year-old girl has died after an SUV crashed into an elementary school in the Wimbledon area of London, British police said on Sunday.

Michael Kable has been sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order over the assault.

Students will soon be banned from using phones and smartwatches at school, even during break times.

The groundbreaking new trial aims at enhancing the way students learn through the use of AI, which is set to provide 24-hour a day assistance.

Drivers have been caught on camera performing dangerous U-turns in the same Adelaide school zone where a mother and daughter were hit by a car last week.

New South Wales families yet to use their Active Kids and Creative Kids vouchers this year have until Friday to take advantage of the schemes.

A strange object found in a school meal in China was the head of a rat, Chinese authorities have concluded, overturning previous official reassurances that it was duck neck.

Almost a quarter of Victorian senior high school students aren't completing Year 12, according to new figures from the Productivity Commission.

Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan's Sangcharak district.

A US school district that recently pulled the King James Bible from elementary and middle school libraries has now received a request to review the Book of Mormon for removal, according to school officials.

Aussie schools should remain open until 6pm and become "hubs of afternoon activities" to better accomodate "modern employment", a Liberal MP has proposed.

One teacher's alleged crimes were detailed in a letter sent to the parents of Banksia Park International High School.

Initial ballistics examinations from NSW Police suggest it was fired from a small caliber gun from a "some distance away".

A 15-year-old boy accused of firing multiple gunshots at his former school is likely to be charged with endangering the lives of others.

Investigators have confirmed the incident at Macquarie Fields Public School was not a targeted attack on the school.

The death of a young boy with special needs, who choked on a nectarine stone while at school, would have been prevented had he been better supervised.

A concerned father is calling on the Education Department to step in after his wife and three daughters were chased through a shopping centre by a gang of school girls. 

Police allege the 15-year-old found the keys to his father's gun safe and took two rifles to the school.