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.
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Australia 'should not adopt private tutoring culture'
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.
Half of NSW students would fail first HSC test
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.
Sydney boys take on 'most hated man in the world'
He outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug by more than 5000 per cent.
We have a bigger problem than being bad at maths
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.
Why is Australia's education system going backwards?
We assess some of the most common arguments put forward to explain why Australian students are going backwards on key global tests like PISA, released this week.
Why 15-year-olds don't care about rankings
My peers who took part in this test were unanimous in that they did not, to the best of their ability, attempt the exam.
PISA science test: can you beat a 15-year-old?
Try these questions from the 2015 PISA science test.
UNSW proposal to sack hundreds of university staff
A leaked proposal shows the university wants to save $51 million a year by cutting back on support services, finance and other operations.
'There is something terribly wrong in our country'
Fifty years after Charlie Perkins became the first Indigenous graduate, Aborigines are still struggling to gain an education.
How Treasury clawed back $210m from floundering TAFE
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.
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.
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.