Religious Schools

Nancy Mullarvey treasures the time she spends with "wonderful" high school students at her Swan Hill aged care home. Their time together is part of a volunteer program with benefits for all involved.

Chevalier College's "contemporary learning delivery" allows year 10 to 12 students to study from home one day a week, with a letter to parents saying the Southern Highlands Catholic school engaged solicitors to ensure the effective implementation of the plan.

Without a prescription, the retail purchase of e-cigarettes is not allowed in Western Australia. But in at least one regional city, they're being sold without question.

Lilie James worked as a water polo coach at St Andrew's Cathedral School before her body was found on campus in a bathroom in the gym area.

Debate has erupted again over the future of special schools following the disability royal commission's final report. Here's why the issue is so complex and personal.

Four primary schools will be closed by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools by the end of this year,after they were deemed unsustainable,

Universities will be given two years to overhaul their education degrees or risk losing their accreditation as part of a national bid to fix Australia's teacher shortage.

Catholic Education Tasmania is reviewing a religious instruction course planned for college students next year after feedback from principals. An LGBTIQA+ support group has called it "discriminatory" and has threatened to lodge formal complaints. 

Detectives from Western Australia's Child Abuse Squad charge a 41-year-old teacher with indecently recording four female students at a Catholic college in Perth's north-east.

The organisation responsible for Catholic schools in the Sydney Archdiocese paid almost $400,000 to a mysterious recruitment firm whose emails were signed by a man named Arthur Thorogood. An investigation was never able to find him.

One of the women who was sexually abused by Jay Walsh at Perth's Penrhos College in the 1980s urges any other possible victims to come forward, saying they "need to rescue each other" from what happened to them.

The latest national schools data shows enrolments in public schools are dropping, as parents increasingly opt for faith-based independent schools.

Former students allege they were discouraged from getting the HPV vaccine, were given redacted textbooks, and there were persistent attempts to recruit pupils to Opus Dei.

While the group is known for its secrecy, Four Corners' latest report is far from the first time it has appeared in the headlines.

An independent authority's board member has spoken out in support of a group of Opus Dei-aligned Sydney schools, despite the New South Wales premier having asked the authority to investigate.

Your postcode – rather than whether you go to a public or private school – is more likely to determine your academic success.

Amy Goel says her son, who attends a Christian school in the Hunter Valley, was not included with other children leaving year 6.

A bill significantly amending the Northern Territory's Anti-Discrimination Act for the first time in three decades passed parliament on Tuesday, despite ardent criticism from religious groups.

A bill to amend the Northern Territory's Anti-Discrimination Act for the first time in decades is expected to return to parliament today. Here's what you need to know. 

New anti-discrimination laws are expected to pass through parliament, but some fear the reforms would "completely remove" protections for religious schools.

The NT's attorney-general says proposed changes to the Anti-Discrimination Act will go ahead, despite opposition from religious groups.

When the Citipointe Christian College issued an enrolment contract asking parents to agree homosexuality was a sin, the protests of students sparked a political firestorm around the rights of religious schools to practise their beliefs.

When the Citipointe Christian College issued an enrolment contract asking parents to agree homosexuality was a sin, the protests of students sparked a political firestorm around the rights of religious schools to practise their beliefs.

A staff member at a Tasmanian Marist Catholic school accused of sexually exploiting multiple students and young girls pleads guilty to a string of offences.

The recent pushback over a planned scripture reading at a girls school is just like the forcing out of Essendon's Andrew Thorburn — both examples of "society becoming increasingly hostile to Christian beliefs", Tasmania's Catholic leader says.