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. 

Sydney College of the Arts jobs will be slashed in half as courses are scrapped

Donna Loughran knows the challenges facing her students better than most.

Gaming can boost students' school performance and should be incorporated into classroom activities.

UTS has joined forces with special effects company Animal Logic to offer a new postgraduate degree in animation and visual effects, in a joint venture pitched at making Australia a leader in the burgeoning virtual reality industry.

While politicians have traded blame for the underwhelming NAPLAN results this week, there are some schools trying to take a more rounded measure of student progress. And the insights are what many suspected all along: there are things that matter a lot more than a good test score.

For girls at co-educational schools, the numbers just aren't adding up.

Education minister Adrian Piccoli has defended the NSW NAPLAN results, saying it would be "naive" to expect the new funding model to lead to a turnaround in the 2016 results.

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

Screening for a serious congenital condition may fail to identify babies at risk of developing poor skills in primary school, a world-first study suggests.

Children in the Molonglo Valley now have access to contemporary learning facilities with a touch of history.

The tide of the one-way student exchange has turned back towards the booming Asian business market.

• 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.