Five schools have leapt more than 10 places compared to their overall HSC ranking to be among the state's top schools for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

It is the school that is barely past its 16th birthday, has its origins in a for-profit multi-national schooling chain and on Thursday became one of the top schools in the state.

An innovative centre that has helped teachers learn how to use technology in the classroom as well as run student bootcamps in robotics and coding is being closed by the Department of Education.

Seven schools have tumbled out of the top 10 on this year's higher-level English merit list, while for higher-level maths, a new rising star has leapt an astounding 65 places to storm into the top 10.

This summer holidays, instead of the more traditional cricket or tennis camps, thousands of kids as young as 6 or 7 will be holed up in front of computers at privately-run coding and robot camps. 

In a country town at the edge of the Warrumbungles in NSW's north west, a tiny high school is punching well above its weight in the HSC. 

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

Nathalie Teh nearly had a heart attack, twins took home nearly identical marks, and Alana Adamus' cat was as nervous as she was.

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Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as ATARs are released across the state

Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as we countdown to the top schools in the state.

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

There's a groundswell of re-thinking what is needed in engineering education, says a key professor.

This list celebrates the students who scored 90 or above in 10 or more units in the HSC.

If you've just received your HSC and ATAR and are thinking about a teaching career, you need to make some hard decisions up front.

Type in your school's name to see where it ranked in the 2016 HSC.

NSW students enrolling in teaching will have to pass new requirements to gain a degree.

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At 14-years-old Hicham Jansiz fled Homs, a city the Syrian civil war has burned to rubble, at 16 Hicham waited in a refugee camp thinking only of water and the food he could not eat.

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.

It's HSC results week. Here's all you need to know about changes to ATAR as a result of a Fairfax Media investigation.

The first comprehensive study of pricing at school canteens in NSW found unhealthy snacks, hot food and drinks are significantly cheaper than healthy options.

Analytics experts are in-demand and universities are responding, offering new data degrees.

University course advisers are online and on campus at key times this summer

​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. 

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.

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.