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Changes to the education system in 2015
2013 was the year of Gonski; 2014 the year of higher education reform; 2015 has been the year of … hmmm … wait, what actually happened this year?
Girl power reigns supreme in HSC
Girls have topped the state in agriculture, primary industries and automotive studies as well as English and history.
Australia needs more young women like Sarah Haynes
We constantly tell teenage girls to have more confidence and speak honestly - but when they do, we shut them down instead of celebrating them
'The students are in tears, the teachers are in tears'
The principal of a private Sydney girls school has been forced to write to parents after a social media campaign calling for her dismissal escalated ahead of the school's speech night on Wednesday.
'Naive and ignorant': Former Ravenswood captains slam Sarah Haynes' controversial speech
Former Ravenswood school captains have rubbished the claims made by outgoing captain Sarah Haynes, calling her speech "indulgent" and "unfair".
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Ravenswood captain Sarah Haynes delivers memorable year-end speech
When the captain of elite private school Ravenswood gave an uncensored assessment of her final year at the institution, the reaction was one of shock and awe.
Mission Australia Youth Survey: Teenagers worried about future jobs
Mission Australia's national youth survey has revealed more than half of young Queenslanders believe there are obstacles preventing them from gaining employment or furthering their studies, with young women more concerned than young men.
An open letter to my daughter as she starts high school
All the things a mum wants to say to her daughter as she starts her next schooling chapter.
I owe it to my daughters to tell them I did drugs
No parent could fail to feel a visceral jolt of pain on reading accounts of how the 15-year-old son of singer Nick Cave fell to his death after taking LSD in July. Arthur Cave, a pupil at school in Eastbourne, had taken the hallucinatory drug with a friend, in a field on the outskirts of Brighton.
A school captain’s heartbreaking final speech goes around the world
The Christchurch Boys' High School school captain who is being treated for an aggressive cancer has "had a lift" from the international reaction to his inspirational final speech.
How to help your child cope with exam stress
Exam time can create an enormous amount of stress for students, and consequently the whole family.
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