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If “integrity” is interpreted mainly as tighter surveillance of claims, the practical effect may be more paperwork and more pressure on teachers and families to prove what should already be understood as an educational right, writes Catherine Smith, The University of Melbourne in this article republished from The Conversation.

A lot of teachers are leaving the sector due to stress and a lack of support in the classrooms. This is just adding to the issue.

Rigid gender stereotypes are still being embedded in the uniforms students, especially at private and religious schools.

Two-thirds of girls change their behaviour to avoid sexual harassment, with over half indicating they don’t feel safe on public transport.

Students from one of NSW’s top selective state schools have been accused of using derogatory language targeted at other students and parents from different cultural backgrounds.

The parents of a 12-year old girl who died by suicide in Sydney last week are urging schools to do more to combat bullying.

Two female high school students from Louisiana have derived a new proof for Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry.

In South Australia, an ongoing study has revealed disturbing behaviours exhibited by male high school students towards female teachers.

Our son is being misnamed at school, called instead by – in the interest of being frank – another brown kid’s name, writes Dr Maitreyi Modak.

There is a disturbing pattern of sexual harassment, sexism and misogyny perpetrated by boys within school environments, new research looking into the impact Andrew Tate, has found. 

Members of the Islamic State-linked militant group stormed a private secondary school, killing 37 people — many of them students. 

While schools were often sites of harm for our participants, uniform should not be seen as a “normal” part of growing up.