Revealed: how Treasury clawed back $210m from floundering TAFE

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The public vocational educator was struggling with a disastrous enrolment system, massive job cuts and chaotic implementation of government reforms.

Family day care rort earned $260,000 in two days

A 29-year-old NSW woman pretended she was a vulnerable foster carer to earn millions of dollars in child care subsidies, court documents reveal.

NSW government says teachers should be recruited like police

NSW will face an influx of lessqualified teachers from other states, the state government has warned, unless national minimum standards are adopted to prevent students from flooding into university degrees.

STEM setting preschoolers up for workforce success in 2030

How do you capture the inquisitiveness of four-year-olds and transfer that to the workplace? And what will the workplace of 2030 even look like? A University of Canberra project is hoping to bridge the gap.

Universities slam 'elitist' federal government proposal

Universities have slammed a series of the Turnbull government's fee-deregulation proposals in a series of submission released by the Federal Department of Education on Thursday.

The truth about our education system

This week the OECD released its major education report card for the world's 35 advanced economies.

New preschool funding misses 70pc of children

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. 

Tim gave up his six-figure job in LA only to land in Sydney's college war

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.

The fallacy of single-sex education

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.

International education in NSW grows to $7 billion

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.

Education company could reap millions from visa program

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.

The Sydney universities with the most drop-outs revealed

Drop out rates in Australian universities have reached their highest level in a decade, as universities enrol record numbers of students across the country.

Our universities' global rankings revealed

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. 

'I hope no one paid for this': Minister slams schools report

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has slammed a federal productivity commission report into the nation's schools as a waste of money.

Will every child at every school ever get a fair go?

The Gonski plan represented the best opportunity for reform of school funding in a generation. But five years later, is the Gonski plan dead?

The 180 schools in NSW stretched beyond capacity

More than one-third of NSW schools are full and 180 are operating over capacity, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has heard.

How Sydney's schools can be more like Finland's

NSW schools should learn from Finland and judge schools on broader measures than NAPLAN, the secondary principals association says.

The truth about university rankings

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.