Teachers

Teach for Australia program fast-tracks professionals from industries into teachers in regions that urgently need them.

Over the years, Jamahl Ali has thrived with support from his teachers, family and therapists. Now this boy with "a very kind heart" is leading his peers at Toronto Public School.

Michelle Williams was 18 when she first got a taste of working as a governess. She has returned to Far West NSW to work for the same family, a generation apart.

Ross Clark moved to Broken Hill reluctantly in the 1970s, when the road to Sydney wasn't paved. But then he met Maureen and their shared love of adventure blossomed into a marriage, which is still going strong after more than 50 years.

The Grattan Institute report says one-third of Australia's 4 million school children lack proper reading skills.

Managing menstruation in public can be challenging at the best of times, but imagine being eight years old and having to deal with your period at school. Here's how teachers can make it easier.

His nickname was 'Hitler'; now former attendees of a Catholic boys school have received a letter telling them a school building has been renamed after a review into the teacher's conduct. Some of them have told the ABC what they endured.  

Nicholas Visser first contacted the girl on the social media app Snapchat, then told an internal school investigation the friend request was a mistake he made after a night of drinking.

Two British teachers are flown to their first day of school in Western Australia's outback, assisted by police and ADF, after flooding forces road closures.

Students are missing out on elective subjects and teachers are taking on subjects they are not qualified to teach, because of significant staff shortages at some state schools. 

Two ex-principals are among a group of education department fill-ins taking on an eleventh-hour deployment to a Northern Territory primary school.

Speaking with ABC News Breakfast the Labor minister said teachers are one of the most important professions, but 'we don't have enough of them'.

Thousands of students face a revolving door of relief teachers, cancelled subjects or being split into separate classes due to ongoing teacher shortages.

My son, along with tens of thousands of other Australian kids, is about to formally leave the land of childhood and go to secondary school next week, and a clean-out of many of his kindergarten things felt long overdue, writes Virginia Trioli.

Teacher, linguist and community leader Yalmay Yunupingu has been named the 2024 Senior Australian of the Year.

There are over 130 classroom vacancies in Territory public schools, which comes on top of a shortage of over 200 nurses.

Corporate staff working for the NT Department of Education have been put on notice that they may be sent to cover gaps in classrooms due to a growing teacher shortage.

Students from Toolamba Primary School, near Shepparton, have won a national competition with their eye-catching cow 'Moolamba', and along the way brushed up on their nutrition knowledge.

An alternative education approach, along with a focus on inclusiveness and wellbeing, helps to attract new students to a small country school in Victoria, while 50 kilometres away, it's the end of an era for a 165-year-old school.

City public primary schools have dominated the list of high-performing schools, according to analysis of NAPLAN data, as school results are released today. 

A four-legged bundle of curly brown fur is putting smiles on the faces of pupils struggling with the deaths of a teacher and a student.

A South Australian education coordinator and former Catholic school teacher accused of child sex offences has been found not guilty by a jury in the state's District Court.

Deep in the corridors of John Hunter Children's Hospital, school lessons come to the bedside of sick kids as part of a long-standing on-site education program that is providing families with "immeasurable" support.

Ethan says he is "haunted" by the abuse he alleges he suffered at the hands of three different men. He hopes his story inspires other victims to come forward, and a more compassionate approach to civil cases.

Before he became the legendary Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin was a peasant boy in communist China with a burning desire to work harder than everyone else.