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.
The education company at the centre of a donations furore that put a halt to the front bench career of Senator Sam Dastyari is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the government's streamlined visa program, new data from the department of education reveals.
Drop out rates in Australian universities have reached their highest level in a decade, as universities enrol record numbers of students across the country.
Australian universities' investment in research has driven improvement in their global rankings, according to a global higher education think tank that produces one of the most influential world university league tables, released Tuesday.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has slammed a federal productivity commission report into the nation's schools as a waste of money.
Teachers say he is comparing education to shopping for washing powder.
The Gonski plan represented the best opportunity for reform of school funding in a generation. But five years later, is the Gonski plan dead?
More than one-third of NSW schools are full and 180 are operating over capacity, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has heard.
NSW schools should learn from Finland and judge schools on broader measures than NAPLAN, the secondary principals association says.
Musical.ly, an app that allows users to make short videos of themselves lip-syncing to pop songs might sound harmless, but Wenona School on Sydney's north shore has banned the app over concerns about child safety and "highly sexualised dance moves".
The Good Universities Guide is released Monday, and in it, prospective students and their families will get a very different picture of Australia's top universities.
Fly-by-night private colleges with high drop-out rates are set to lose access to taxpayer subsidies under a federal government plan to "smash" the business model of dodgy operators.
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