Education Law Notes – Term 2, 2021

While cases of COVID-19 continue to pop up around Australia, it was great to be able to speak at two conferences in the past month where both I and the attendees were physically in the same room! At the first of these conferences, I spoke about student discipline with an emphasis on what procedural fairness entails when considering expulsion. At the second, a governance training day for the Board members and senior leadership of several schools, I considered how schools ought to respond to the risks to the mental health of students as a result of bullying, cyber bullying, child sexual abuse, and peer-to-peer sexual abuse. I also talked about the particular issues arising in relation to transgender students. Copies of my papers, as well as past issues of these Notes, are available on our website.