Federal funding for schools under threat

Matthew Knott   Free schooling in Australia may no longer exist if the Abbott government decides on radical reform, says green paper.

Pittwater House cracks down on cheats

Eryk Bagshaw   An investigation has been launched into allegations of HSC students plagiarising essays and parents bullying teachers into increasing the marks of their children at a Sydney private school.

Ultimo outraged at '$1 for a school' price tag

Eryk Bagshaw   A Department of Education aboutface on the rebuilding of a public school on contaminated land has the Ultimo community up in arms.

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Patients at risk as nursing students cheat

Eryk Bagshaw   Nursing students could be putting the lives of patients at risk through widespread cheating at universities throughout Sydney. 

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Are we becoming a nation of cheats?

Anna Patty, Eryk Bagshaw and Alexandra Smith   When questions were asked about the Certificate IV in Horticulture he included on his curriculum vitae, Babis Lagos said he had no idea how it got there.

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Ultimo Public School to be bulldozed 

Alexandra Smith, Leesha McKenny   The state government has abandoned plans to build a much-needed new inner-city primary school on a block of land owned by the City of Sydney.

Dalai Lama supports ethics classes

Eryk Bagshaw   Dalai Lama throws his support behind ethics classes in NSW schools saying world religions have failed in their mission to create a better world.

'We can't trust what students are bringing in'

Eryk Bagshaw   Teachers have called for an end to take-home assignments and urgent change to HSC testing to fight a "corrupt and unscrupulous cheating industry" that has flourished throughout the state's high schools.

High school students buying assignments

Eryk Bagshaw   NSW high school students are paying hundreds of dollars to have assignments written for them by private companies and individual tutors as teachers struggle to contain a cheating culture they have described as "endemic".

Finished your homework? Big Brother knows

Eryk Bagshaw   Welcome to the big brother school.

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Australia lagging in coding stakes

Lakshmi Singh   Teaching children computer code is becoming a priority in schools across the world. But Australia is falling behind.

Sydney medical students invented patients

Alexandra Smith   Medical students at the University of Sydney invented patients, falsified records and even 'interviewed' dead patients.

Sydney Uni to bump degrees to four years

Alexandra Smith   The University of Sydney plans to increase its undergraduate courses from three to four years and cut many of its double degrees in a radical overhaul of education that would see the number of degrees reduced by at least 100.

'A textbook could never do that'

Eryk Bagshaw   One inner-west teacher is revolutionising the classroom.

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Sydney Uni to shed 'old, white male' image

Alexandra Smith   Sydney University will significantly reduce its undergraduate degrees and be more focused on the research it funds in an audacious bid to unseat Melbourne as the best university in the country.

Another student loses degree after cheating

Brianna Parkins and Lisa Visentin   The University of Wollongong has stripped one student of their degree and failed five others after they were caught buying essays online in a statewide plagiarism scandal.

Students lose degrees after essay cheating 

Lisa Visentin   Macquarie University has revoked the degrees of two students and prevented a further 10 from graduating after an independent investigation revealed the students had used an online ghost-writing service to complete their assignements.

NSW universities donate to political parties

Alexandra Smith   Three NSW universities have made political donations to major parties in a bid to "maintain relationships" with decision-makers.

Kids not waiting for coding to be in curriculum

Eryk Bagshaw   The federal parliament is talking up the value of coding and it being in the national curriculum. Amanda Hogan and her class of eight isn't waiting.

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Myopia fears for Australian students

Eryk Bagshaw   One of Australia's leading eye specialists has called for action to stop spiralling levels of short-sightedness.

Crackdown on enrolments in public schools

Alexandra Smith   Some schools projected to enrol more than twice as many students as they have space for within four years.