Taxpayers paid $9 million per graduate in one year at a private Sydney college, an analysis of Department of Education data reveals, as the full cost of the government's failed vocational education program looks set to be revealed in the wake of its decision to shut down the scheme.
The vocational education industry says the government's radical overhaul of the sector could "cripple" legitimate operators and limit student choice.
Australia's top-ranked global university is moving to lower its proportion of Chinese international students, a group it describes as "dominating" international student numbers.
The party is over for the cowboys, shonks and shysters who grew rich on billions of dollars in public funding through the government's terminal vocational education scheme.
A new snapshot of gender equity in NSW has revealed an unexpected bright spot.
The School of Music will receive $12.5 million for an overhaul of management.
Critics say the government's new NAPLAN prerequisite puts pressure on kids before they are mature enough to handle it.
An Indigenous student will soon have the opportunity to obtain an education in Rome, 163 years after an Australian boy's adventure went wrong.
There are children who are different - exceptional, even - and then there's Jake Widjaya.
Academics from the University of Sydney are protesting the bestowal of an honorary doctorate on John Howard, saying the former Prime Minister is "considered a racist and a war criminal" and "not a fit recipient of the university's highest honour".
It's 9am on Friday and four-year-old Nicholas has bowled up to class in Leichhardt's Italian Forum, he's sheepishly holding a piece of paper in his hand. It's his homework, he says, as he presents it to his "school readiness" teacher, Violeta Dimeska.
Teaching graduates facing a 47,000 person queue for a permanent job in NSW are being welcomed with open arms halfway across the world.
It's a former industrial site in Pagewood, capped in cracking cement and tufted weeds, soon to be transformed into 256 "luxury" apartments by a Chinese-backed developer. The real estate sell promises gold detailing, marble countertops, rose gold taps and, private landscaped gardens. So far, so Sydney.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has declared a "war over fairness" and accused the federal government of abandoning public schools.
A "pop-up" primary school for 300 children at Wentworth Park in Ultimo will escape environmental scrutiny, despite lead contamination at the site and the takeover of public recreation space.
Huang Xiangmo, the Chinese businessman who paid a personal bill of Labor senator Sam Dastyari, has resigned as Chair of the China institute at UTS over "coverage about political donations and supposed Chinese influence".
A top Australian university has dropped four places in the world's most prestigious university rankings list, the latest report from Times Higher Education has revealed.
The ANU is Australia's second placed university while the University of Canberra continues to rise as well.
A reading program that has been used in up to 960 schools for more than 30 years has been abandoned.
The fitness college empire that has been heavily promoted by Steve "Commando" Willis has once again come under fire for its lack of facilities, poor training and a "scholarship" scheme that encourages students into $15,000 worth of debt.
Legal claims are mounting against Sydney University over its plan to shut its art school at Callan Park.
Young, international and LGBTI students report horrific sexual abuse and assault.
Only 67 per cent of students admitted to a Bachelor of Commerce degree at Sydney University received the required ATAR of 95.
The percentage of HSC students studying mathematics has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years, while the number of students studying at least one VET course is at its highest.
Private colleges are offering 100 per cent NSW taxpayer funded scholarships with minimal government oversight at the same time as the national regulator attempts to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding on the scandal plagued vocational education sector.
This week the OECD released its major education report card for the world's 35 advanced economies.
The cost of childcare to the bulk of NSW families could actually increase after the government's multi-million dollar funding boost to the early childhood sector, industry sources say.
The University of Sydney could be forced to repay millions of dollars to Sydney College of the Arts students, after almost 200 have commenced action for misleading and deceptive conduct under the consumer law.
A review of 1.6 million students has failed to find any advantages to single-sex education, says the former president of American Psychological Association Diane Halpern.
The value of international education to the NSW economy has jumped nearly 30 per cent in two years, with the state drawing about a third of Australia's total international education earnings.