Property multimillionaires help to fast-track Grace's uni plans

Grace Corr won't have to miss out a year working to fund her studies after receiving a Wakil scholarship.

The school that has topped the HSC 21 years in a row

Selective school James Ruse Agricultural High School has taken out the first spot in the Higher School Certificate for the 21st consecutive year.

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. 

Australia should not adopt private tutoring culture: Education Minister

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. 

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.

We have a bigger education problem than being bad at maths

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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 school students two years behind world's best

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.

Why Wei had to move to Hong Kong to get a competitive edge

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?