A 146 year old primary school near Ballarat with just 14 students will close on Friday.

Fifty years after Charlie Perkins became the first Indigenous graduate, Aborigines are still struggling to gain an education.

As Victoria plans to make swimming part of the curriculum, ACT students are getting less time in the pool

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My peers who took part in this test were unanimous in that they did not, to the best of their ability, attempt the exam.

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Spare a thought for Australia's 15-year-olds. If they don't have enough to contend with, between the immediate demands of Snapchat and a future of robots stealing their jobs, now they have to bear the brunt of a nation's slighted pride. 

Australian high school students are up to two school years behind their peers in the world's best performing countries, a major global test of student achievement has revealed.

Try these questions from the 2015 PISA science test.

The ACT Government has committed to hire 20 school psychologists but just five schools will benefit from the promise in 2017.

A leaked proposal shows the university wants to save $51 million a year by cutting back on support services, finance and other operations.

The NSW government has sold a historic Sydney property to one of Sydney's most expensive private schools, despite public school enrolments surging in the area over the past four years.

It's a "miracle" university, founded just 25 years ago and now ranked in the world's Top 50.  How did the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology do it?

New figures from the ABS have shown one in five Australians are enrolled in study.

Ruby's debating team has come all the way from Norfolk Island, defeating 27 other schools to make it to the State Championships on the mainland.

He outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug by more than 5000 per cent.

One of Melbourne's oldest gardens which was laid out when the colony of Victoria was just two years young is under threat from building works, which could swallow up about 10 per cent of the remaining grounds.

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

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.

It's the poisoned chalice no one wants to drink from. Sixteen months later and the ANU is still looking for a permanent head for the School of Music.

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.

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.

A convicted family day-care fraud who stole $3.6 million from taxpayers through her Aussie Giggles day care centre has allegedly been receiving Centrelink study payments for Indigenous students despite not being Indigenous, the NSW District Court has heard.

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.

A 28-year-old woman has been found guilty of fraud after she forged children's attendance records at her Aussie Giggles family day care centre to rake in more than $3.6 million in taxpayer funding.

A five-minute reading "check" for first-graders that includes made-up words like "beff" and "shup" that has dramatically improved early literacy rates in the UK is set to be adopted in Australia. 

The University of Sydney produces graduates that are more employable than those from Cambridge, Oxford and Columbia, according to a new global ranking list. 

The Education Minister is under increasing pressure ahead of a possible cabinet reshuffle.

For Greta Saggus, industrial design is about problem solving. 

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.