University students, you are being watched

Students of Australia, you are being watched. Not only in the lecture hall, but every time you log on and even when you walk across the campus. 

2016 NAPLAN results not good enough

Injecting millions of dollars into the country's education system has failed to lift NAPLAN scores.

Young Liberal sets up companies that harvest job-seeker data

• EXCLUSIVE

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

UN asked to investigate 'abuses' of disabled students in Australian schools

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.

Brighton Grammar expels students

• 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".

Rich student, poor student: what your VCE subjects say about you

 Rich VCE students study Latin and receive bonus marks while their poor counterparts study food technology and their results are scaled down.

Sex, schoolies and the age of consent

The annual pilgrimage to schoolies for tens of thousands of high school graduates can throw up some tricky questions ... about sex.

Julia Gillard calls for greater efforts to educate refugee children

The world urgently needs to lift its game to ensure children fleeing crisis receive an education, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Former Geelong Grammar principal paid teacher accused of child sex abuse to retire early

A former Geelong Grammar principal- who is now the headmaster of an elite Sydney school- admitted he paid a teacher accused of child sex abuse to retire early but insisted it was not a "sweetheart deal".