Robyn Grace

Students are devastated after much-loved driver Gary McDonald died in the crash on the way home from school.

Critical thinking, collaboration and communication are being measured to provide a rounded view of a student’s skills, rather than just their university entrance rank.

Small-group tutoring was billed as an important program for students catching up after COVID lockdowns. But any evidence about the program’s effectiveness is being kept from teachers, schools and parents.

New data released exclusively to The Age by the Crime Statistics Agency validates widespread concerns about students’ behaviour at school.

Government schools in Victoria received almost $150 less per student than before COVID, as the state’s top private schools bank hundreds of millions in income.

Catholic schools are adopting a teaching philosophy that is not mandated in Victoria’s public schools. But experts are hoping the public system follows suit.

A third of Australian children will remain below grade-level expectations for reading in the next decade unless governments commit to strong targets to lift literacy rates, education researchers say.

Private schools slugged by the Victorian government’s impending changes to payroll tax have increased annual fees by an average of 6 per cent. See the full list.

First round university offers are out with society, culture and health among the state’s most popular courses. Find your offer in our searchable database.

Victoria’s top public schools are keeping pace with their private competitors, despite receiving less than half the income per student.