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Caroline Schelle

Caroline Schelle

Caroline Schelle is an education reporter, and joined The Age in 2022. She previously covered courts at AAP.

School zoned have been updated across Victoria have been updated.

Parents celebrate ‘country school’ zone change after a decade of lobbying

Students in two regional towns will be able to access a popular Daylesford school as part of 11 new school boundary changes announced this week.

  • Caroline Schelle

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Protesters in the Melbourne CBD on Tuesday during the school strike.

Parents warned of more disruption after thousands of striking teachers sweep through CBD

While classrooms across the state sat empty on Tuesday, 35,000 educators took to the streets of Melbourne. But more pain could yet be to come.

  • Noel Towell, Jackson Graham, Caroline Schelle and Chip Le Grand
State school teachers protest outside the office of Education Minister Ben Carroll in Niddrie last month.

Victorian teacher strike as it happened: School closures, rally updates and parent guide during the state’s first government-school strike in 13 years

Tens of thousands of Victorian government school teachers, principals and education support staff are walking off the job today for a 24-hour statewide strike — the first of its kind in 13 years. Follow our live updates.

  • Caroline Schelle and Isabel McMillan
Victoria Police investigate the death of a man in Jung, near Horsham.

Slain elderly man found with dozens of injuries

A 49-year-old man has been charged with murder after the body of a man in his 80s was found on Monday morning off the Henty Highway at Jung, near Horsham.

  • Caroline Schelle
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US-Iran war as it happened: Trump calls on countries to send warships to reopen Hormuz; UN chief urges Israel and Hezbollah to stop fighting

Follow our live coverage as the conflict in the Middle East enters its third week.

  • Caroline Schelle, Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Josefine Ganko
MLC student Anna Wang is aiming to study literature at a university in the UK or US.

Melbourne students reveal how they won places at world’s top unis

A star literature student who barely spoke English when she arrived in Australia is aiming to study at one of the world’s top universities, and she’s not alone.

  • Caroline Schelle
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Left to right: Teghveer Singh, Zeerak Khan, Sidak Kaur, Sensei Lillian Zammit and Arya Khan

Hi-yah! How school buildings became a community lifeline out of hours

Government schools are providing desperately needed sporting facilities for community groups in Melbourne’s growth suburbs.

  • Caroline Schelle
The extra officers will patrol Northland, Highpoint, Eastland and Fountain Gate, but police haven’t ruled out adding more centres.

Police and safety officers to patrol shopping centres until the end of the year

Premier Jacinta Allan will on Sunday extend security presence at Northland, Eastland, Highpoint and Fountain Gate after hundreds of arrests during a three-month trial to tackle rising crime.

  • Caroline Schelle
Aboriginal elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe at Camp Sovereignty, a meeting and ceremonial place that Thorpe originally set up during the 2006 Commonwealth Games to bring attention to the plight of Aboriginal people.

The Age journalists dominate Quill Award nominations

The Age picked up 36 nominations across 31 categories in Victoria’s most prestigious journalism awards.

  • Caroline Schelle
Jack Fisher is a second-year university student who is studying occupational therapy.

The most popular uni degrees of 2026 revealed, as students with required ATAR miss out on ‘guaranteed’ place

A surge in uni demand this year has meant it is tougher than ever to score a spot in the most sought-after degree.

  • Caroline Schelle and Noel Towell