At a time when there is great turmoil and distress for families around the world who are fleeing their homes to escape persecution, fearing for their lives, there is a resistance by many to welcome them into their communities.

Education students from The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus are teaching the valuable lesson of reading to children in care through a unique and rewarding program developed to improve literacy outcomes.

The road to becoming a principal hasn’t been straightforward for Carmel O’Shaughnessy.

National test results, known as the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy, or NAPLAN, will once again hit the headlines when the results of testing in numeracy and literacy for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are released.

Chasing Asylum documents the lives of asylum seekers sent by Australia’s refugee policy into offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru.

The need to walk faithfully in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd was the central message Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe this week reinforced, as he paid thanks to those who have participated and contributed to the development of the new Archdiocesan Plan.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has last week described Catholic education in Australia as a precious gift that must be protected, with Christ placed at its centre.

No topic was off limits for Catholic education stakeholders as they discussed the secularisation of schools, same-sex marriage and the impact of the Royal Commission at a special Q&A panel discussion in Perth last week.

Visiting Hondouran Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga, – who was invited to Perth for the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) Conference, – has called for a return to Catholic values in the education system and spoken of the need for action on climate change at two separate events.

Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB returned to his teaching roots during a visit to St Norbert College in Queens Park.