An unlikely alliance has been forged, with Victorian and NSW Education Ministers from the opposite sides of politics banding together to fight Turnbull government changes to school funding.
Australia's oldest university college is refusing to participate in a university-wide cultural review by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.
The Australian National University has again finished number one in the country for generating graduates most sought after by global employees.
Universities will be forced to come clean to prospective students about the real ATAR cut-offs for their courses, following recommendations to the Turnbull government from the nation's top higher education panel.
Cara Jane Shipp recently won an award for Leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education but her reward is seeing her students develop a love for education.
It's boomtime for corporate childcare in Australia, with for-profit operators and the big, listed landlords who own more than half the nation's centres boasting of strong growth, increasing rental income and multimillion dollar profits for their shareholders.Â
Strict discipline and pressure to perform? Or a child-centred, individual approach?
A Sydney private school will transform itself into a fully co-educational campus after more than a century of predominantly single sex education.
Despite budgeting $80 million to reduce the maintenance backlog at state schools, the NSW government allowed the backlog to blow out by another $40 million.
NSW drivers were caught speeding through school zones more than 80,000 times in the past year while children as young as five were being dropped off by their parents, new data obtained from the Office of State Revenue by Fairfax Media has revealed.
Medical students victimised and belittled by senior colleagues or professors are silenced from reporting the harassment or bullying for fear they will be "marked for life" and find their career progress blocked as a result, a Senate inquiry has heard.
Sexual assault support groups and student representatives are questioning the independence of a historic survey of sexual harassment on university campuses.
The church is on a marketing drive following the opening of its $37 million headquarters on Sydney's north shore.
A school with a long and troubled history of violence and disadvantage has been given a fresh start this week as students moved into brand new school facilities.
As many teenagers dream of unencumbered freedom when the HSC ends in a week, these students are worried about being priced out of Sydney's housing market.
Forget singing or acting your way to riches. Tech entrepreneurs dominate the list of Australia's young and wealthy.
Several NSW schools have banned students from wearing "creepy clown" outfits for Halloween celebrations in the wake of the phenomenon sweeping the United States and copy-cat pranksters appearing closer to home.
Australian students' slide in the international benchmarks for reading and numeracy may not be the fault of the students, the teachers, or the school system, says Finnish education expert Pasi Sahlberg.
"This is education's moment," according to Mark Scott, the new head of NSW's Department of Education.
Gifted musicians and singers from around NSW are auditioning now for a fee-free education.
Children as young as five are being rejected from local public schools because their parents are temporary visa holders, as schools across Sydney overflow with enrolments.
New statistics show that more than $420 million in federal public funding could have already gone down the drain in NSW.
Stressed HSC students are so wired on their prescription drugs that they are resorting to sleeping tablets and taking an artificial sleep hormone to get themselves to bed, a leading expert has warned.
Most people don't head into their maths exam with glee, but a bit of dread might not be a bad thing, according to Blakehurst High student Madelaine Allen.
How would vocational training work if it was set up for students, not the industry?
NSW education leaders have savaged the Board of Studies for "sabotaging its own syllabuses" by issuing "insanely difficult to read" documents to the state's teachers for changes to the mathematics curriculum.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has "sunk to a new low" according to Federal Minister Simon Birmingham.
A nationwide singalong hopes to draw attention to the importance of music education in schools.
The extra money for more than 2000 schools allows them to secure resources such as extra teachers or speech pathology services for students in need.
"It takes the Lamington drive to another level."