Young Liberal sets up companies that harvest job-seeker data

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

How child sex abuse investigators cope with the images they see

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

Job ads used to hook private college students

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

Sydney schools hit with 'propaganda'

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.

HSC reforms push 'progressive' issues

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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.

Huge HSC overhaul to pressure students from age 14

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

The business that 'struck gold'

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.

College owner transferred $22m in one day, court told

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

Public funding for schools associated with Scientology revealed

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