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HSC 2016 First in Course awards announced
As Year 12 students across the state await their HSC results tomorrow, 124 got the good news early: they had topped the state in a subject.
As Year 12 students across the state await their HSC results tomorrow, 124 got the good news early: they had topped the state in a subject.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has warned that Australia should not try to emulate the high-pressure student environments of high-performing countries where private tutoring is endemic.
More than half of NSW year 9 students would fail at the first hurdle to get their HSC based on this year's NAPLAN results, released in full today.
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Fifty years after Charlie Perkins became the first Indigenous graduate, Aborigines are still struggling to gain an education.
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.
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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.
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.
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