Nicole Precel

As 43,373 of the state’s students sat down for Tuesday’s three-hour-long exam, one was calm and collected despite the enormity of the event and her young age.

One of Victoria’s most expensive private schools wants permission to enrol more girls, arguing it is at risk of becoming a boys’ school by default.

Melbourne is home to Australia’s largest Jewish population, centred on a collection of south-eastern suburbs. People there say they are afraid and shaken.

A family with three children at Leibler Yavneh College faces legal action over almost $300,000 in unpaid school fees, as cost-of-living pressures raise concerns of more debt collections.

The state must apologise and pay compensation to five former students of Jewish descent over failing to protect them from racial discrimination.

The Australian Education Union says job vacancies are at an all-time high, with as many as 2600 jobs yet to be filled, as the government announces the $229 million subsidy package.

Toxic car fumes are a consequence of increased traffic congestion around schools – and cities like Copenhagen and New York have taken drastic moves to fix the problem.

Regional camps say they are struggling to survive because of wage rises for on-call teachers in Victoria.

Experts say the overhauled literacy and numeracy results are a “wake-up call” as many students fall below expected levels of proficiency in basic knowledge areas.

Parents say they feel cheated by the review process that has deemed four Catholic schools in Melbourne unviable and earmarked them for closure by the end of the year.