Elite Australian athletes tackle the HSC overseas
Eryk Bagshaw An eerie quiet descended on 17-year-old Myles Cherry as the sole occupant of the exam room, 16,000 kilometres away from home.
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The girls bucking the chemistry trend
Eryk Bagshaw At North Sydney Girls High School, one in two students sat the HSC chemistry exam on Friday.
The class of 1995: HSC achievers 20 years on
Caitlin Wheeler In 1995, 13 NSW students received a perfect Tertiary Entrance Rank of 100, and 25 received a close 99.95. Twenty years on, The Sydney Morning Herald caught up with the 1995 HSC high achievers to find out where they are now on the eve of this year's exams.
Jacobs has many strings to his bow
Alexandra Smith Medical researcher continues pioneering work in women's health while planning to lift university's world ranking.
HSC 2015: Students sit HSC mathematics
Eryk Bagshaw The rest of the country may be falling behind in mathematics, but these students aren't going to be part of that equation.
UNSW sets sights on place in top 50 unis
Alexandra Smith The University of NSW will position itself as Australia's global university and one of the best 50 institutions in the world under a new strategy.
The man who turned a school on to science
Marcus Strom It takes a special teacher to turn a whole school around.
Are you up for 3-unit physics?
Eryk Bagshaw The state's most talented HSC science students could be offered extension courses including a new super-science subject by 2017.
HSC 2015: School's out
"I'm kind of like a human oxymoron. I feel happy and sad about leaving school. I'm happy for the freedom but I'll miss the place – the environment, the people, the teachers."
More than half of exams will be marked online
Alexandra Smith Each student will have their English exams read by at least 11 markers and their maths exams checked by at least six markers.
Arthur Phillip students' special consideration
Alexandra Smith Students at Arthur Phillip High, in Parramatta, will sit their HSC exams at the school next week as planned but will be able to ask for special consideration.
No advantage to being multi-lingual
Eryk Bagshaw Being multi-lingual has no academic advantage, an Australian study of 5000 children has found.
HSC integrity jeopardised by 'weak' security
Eryk Bagshaw The Department of Education has been slammed for failing to implement basic security features to protect the integrity of up to 50 per cent of HSC marks in every school across NSW.
Quality concerns as marking moves overseas
Eryk Bagshaw The National Tertiary Education Union has lashed out at a decision to push marking for the test that allows international students into Australian universities, online.
Turnbull may be Gonski's saviour: Piccoli
Eryk Bagshaw Adrian Piccoli hopes the Prime Minister has learnt the lesson of the Coalition's backflip on schools funding.
Call to teach teens about egg freezing
Eryk Bagshaw A leading fertility specialist has suggested that children be taught about family planning from an early age.
School chaplains change Gayby controversy
Kirsty Needham The NSW Education Department will seek to break the dominance of Generate Ministries in schools after the Gayby Baby controversy.
IT 'disaster' could have built 20 schools
Eryk Bagshaw The bungled roll-out of a new IT system across the state's public education system could have built up to 20 new schools.
Insight
School Report 2015
The Herald's School Report allows parents, students and teachers to compare schools by suburb, postcode or school, side by side.
Parents' huge impact on NAPLAN
Students with Australian-born parents have lower NAPLAN scores than those of migrants and children perform better in the tests if they come from a small family.
HSC students set their sights on the Ivy League
Nikki Liang has her sights set on Harvard, Columbia or Yale when she finishes her HSC this year, and those universities are increasingly looking towards Australian students.
'A textbook could never do that'
One inner-west teacher is revolutionising the classroom.
UNSW aims to be in world's top 50
The University of NSW will be one of the top 50 research universities in the world, attract and keep the best academics and ensure it is the leading institution for international students.
How a computer will mark writing in 2017
As NAPLAN draws to a close, one question has left parents, teachers and students scratching their heads. How on earth will a computer be able to mark creative writing?
Computers to mark written exams by 2017
Computers will mark the written essay component of the NAPLAN exams from 2017, infuriating teachers who have described the move as "an absolutely appalling ambush" and vowed to fight any move to computerise written marking.
Interactive: Check the ATAR cut-off for your course in 2015
Universities say business and health degrees were the most popular this year, with strong growth in areas such as nursing, physiotherapy and exercise science.
