• EXCLUSIVE

Companies sell diploma courses and harvest job seekers' data for the scandal-plagued taxpayer-funded vocational education sector.

Sydney University has terminated the proposed merger of its art school with the University of NSW barely one month after it was announced.

In an office in Pyrmont, a team of eight investigators is helping to identify victims and perpetrators of online child sexual abuse content.

If the federal government had listened to warnings, it could have saved $3 billion.

Careers Australia, already prosecuted by the consumer watchdog, is now buying data from job ad websites to boost its student numbers.

Building campuses offshore can be a risky business for Australia's universities. But a new invitation from India could change all that.

Two Sydney universities are among the big winners from the demand driven system, a report reveals.

NSW Labor has labelled a children's book being distributed to the state's schools by the NSW government as "propaganda" for highlighting the benefits of the government's multi-billion dollar re-development of the Bays Precinct in central Sydney.

The United Nations has been asked to investigate dozens of incidents where children with a disability were assaulted, locked in dark rooms and restrained in Australian schools.

• EXCLUSIVE

Students will focus on the environment, the role of women and the role of Aboriginal leaders in modern Australian history, in a set of reforms to the HSC syllabus to be announced by the Board of Studies on Wednesday.

• School shame

Brighton Grammar has expelled two students who set up an Instagram account that featured photos of young girls and invited people to vote for the "slut of the year".

The NSW government will not guarantee the future of the National Art School as students embark on campaign to save the institution from merger. 

Yoga should be made a mandatory part of the school curriculum, the founder of Connect Kids Yoga believes.

Expert says competition to become far more intense in coming years.

Mandatory literacy and numeracy standards, a crackdown on cheats and scaling boost for higher maths are on the way.

If you can't beat it, work it into the lesson.

A federal court judge has criticised the failings of the Commonwealth's funding of private vocational education for allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to flow out of public coffers with little oversight.

The owner of a private college transferred $22 million into his family's account in one day, a court has heard.

"Once-in-a-generation reform" of troubled vocational education sector announced.

Schools associated with the Church of Scientology are receiving more government funding per student than hundreds of Australian public schools.

The NSW Department of Education policy that is putting women at a 13-year disadvantage.

"School is not for everyone," well-meaning people kept telling Lucy Clark, as her daughter struggled in high school.

In the past three years, 1849 people have been barred from working with children in NSW. Yet there's one group whose working with children status parents rarely check.

"Sharp questions need to be answered" about funding of schools that preach "utter hatred" of the outside world, says Labor.

The Ultimo school community - including the Barrett family - says the government has been given "an awesome possibility".

Report finds negative perceptions of scandal-plagued sector affects enrolments as thousands of students choose to go to university instead.

• EXCLUSIVE

An unvetted teacher used another's identification to gain employment in a NSW public school. He taught for two days before he was busted.

A private school run by an "extremist cult" receives more in government funding per student than up to a third of the state's public schools.

Visual arts students are claiming "deceptive conduct" as a merger looms.