Rebecca Barrett

Educators argue for creativity to be taken as seriously as literacy and numeracy in the national school curriculum.

A meeting of education ministers in Canberra has agreed to refer recommendations from the national curriculum review to the body that oversees the curriculum.

Parents are concerned a plan for Sydney's Catholic schools to dump specialist aides for children with hearing and vision impairments in favour of regular teachers will leave students worse off.

Lawyers for suspended Sydney University professor Barry Spurr have told the Federal Court he is collateral damage in a political attack on the Federal Government by the New Matilda website over the national curriculum review.

A leading charity has warned that increasing numbers of children are set to fail at school unless more is done to prepare them in the years before they reach school age.

The inquiry into children in immigration detention has heard evidence alleging a Government cover-up about the scale of mental health issues among child asylum seekers. Psychiatrist Dr Peter Young was the director of mental health services at detention centre service provider International Health and Mental Services (IHMS) for three years until earlier this month. He said figures showed significant mental health problems among child detainees, and the response from the Immigration Department upon being told was "negative". Gasps were heard in the gallery as Dr Young said the department "reacted with alarm and asked us to withdraw the figures from our report".

Many parents worry about the addictiveness of computer games but are their fears justified?

The family of Thomas 'TJ' Hickey will today demand an apology from the NSW Parliament over the teenager's death, 10 years after he crashed his bicycle into a fence. The 17-year-old's death sparked a nine-hour riot in Redfern which captured international attention. His family believes police were responsible for the death, despite a coroner's findings to the contrary, and have campaigned for years for a fresh inquest. At today's rally TJ's mother will carry a controversial plaque the family wants to install at the site where he died.

Electrolux has announced it will close its Orange fridge factory in 2016.

The Federal Government says states should pay their fair share of a school laptop program.