Read all about events, achievements and new initiatives within the department and our schools and preschools on this page. Also see media releases.
$48m investment to support disengaged students
16 October 2024Ensuring more high school students with complex needs continue their studies is the focus of a $48 million investment to be rolled out from next year – delivering a major reform to high schools across ºÚÁϳԹÏ.
Autism Inclusion in Secondary Schools initiative provides more support for children with autism
14 October 2024A new initiative has been introduced to build autism inclusion in secondary schools following the initial success of Autism Inclusion Teachers (AITs) in public primary schools.
Teachers chalk up decades of service
14 October 2024They have toiled over chalkboards, wrestled with cassette players and ever-changing technology, marked rolls and assignments with pencils, sweltered in non-airconditioned classrooms and even battled with snakes.
ºÚÁϳԹÏn students to learn about dangers of social media
11 October 2024School students across ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï will be taught about online safety and the dangers of social media, as part of important reforms to the child safety curriculum.
Aiming for the Stars at Space Camp
2 October 2024A career in space may seem light years away for many people – but not for the budding astronauts at the ºÚÁϳԹÏn Space School.