Education

The first primary school out of two proposed educational facilities to be built by 2024 has been approved by a state government planning assessment body.

Runaway inflation and anaemic wages growth could bite for WA’s cash-flush universities.

The state government’s $22 million proposal for a new primary school in Hammond Park will be considered by its own planning body next week.

Police have been asked by the University of Western Australia to investigate a data breach which may have compromised student grades, identification, images and more.

There is a compelling case for the higher education sector to embrace a broader conception of international education.

With strokes contributing to the loss of 10,000 lives in Australia last year, UWA’s new chair in stroke research wants greater focus on prevention.

Murdoch University has officially named its Building 360 development.

First-mover advantage awaits a WA university willing to offer an apprenticeship degree.

Valerie Gould's tenure atop the state's independent schools body will come to a close this year with UWA's director of student life stepping in as her replacement.

Several leading girls’ schools are buying tracts of land in the South West with backing from their foundations.

A longstanding university practice is increasingly a cause for controversy.

Reforming childcare and higher education policy shape as top priorities for Labor in its first term in government.

CLIMATE change, an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and preserving superannuation may have come in ahead of universal childcare in Anthony Albanese’s victory speech, but the issue will no doubt be a metric by which his government is judged during the next three years.

The state government has chosen Parry and Rosenthal Architects to design $13.9 million worth of upgrades at a Kingsley school.

Murdoch University has blamed the COVID pandemic for derailing its $250 million inner city campus proposal, which had been predicated on an increase in international students.

WA's teachers' union has accepted the state government's contentious offer of a 2.75 per cent pay increase and signed off on a new, two-year agreement.

With no clear alternative to compare secondary students across schools, ATAR will likely remain the standard, despite some high-profile opposition.

Staff cuts at the height of the pandemic are continuing to bite universities across Australia.

All four of WA's public universities have improved their places on Quacquarelli Symonds' latest ranking, one of three major global higher education lists of its sort.

A new, co-authored report has presented two different views of the future of public higher education.

After a decade spent in Europe, Andrew Deeks’ homecoming heralds a period of renewal for WA’s second-oldest university.

One of the country’s most progressive unions has come out in support of universal access to higher education.

ECU has denied allegations of improper grading were unearthed amid a culture review that has led to the university's executive dean of education handing in his resignation.

Like-minded groupings of universities are far more suited to mergers than those based on location.

Derryn Belford is working on how to attract international students back to WA.

Selling Australia to international students isn’t a one-size-fits-all exercise.

One of the last local government-run childcare centres in Perth will close after running a loss of more than $1 million a year for 10 years.

Despite interest from developers, childcare centres aren’t always being approved where Perth families need them most.

A recent survey suggests Australia’s universities are failing to protect students from harassment.

Hiring a new chief executive and partnering with Australia’s most academically prestigious university feature as key highlights in The Fogarty Foundation’s latest annual report.

Universal childcare offers the potential for more women to enter the workforce

Western Australia's public universities have much to celebrate in Quacquarelli Symonds' latest subject rankings, with UWA notching up dozens of entries as a top-50 subject provider.