The school that used Facebook to smash the HSC
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.
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The HSC course that has plummeted to just 1885 students
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.
Forget the tents: there's a new kind of camp in town
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.
Revealed: The state's top schools in English and maths
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.
The schools punching above their weight in the HSC
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.
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.
Live: ATAR results 2016 - 50,000 NSW students get their university entrance ranks
Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as ATARs are released across the state
The identical twins who received almost identical ATARs
Nathalie Teh nearly had a heart attack, twins took home nearly identical marks, and Alana Adamus' cat was as nervous as she was.
Live HSC results 2016: 77,000 NSW High School students receive their marks
Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as we countdown to the top schools in the state.
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.
The top allrounders in the 2016 HSC
This list celebrates the students who scored 90 or above in 10 or more units in the HSC.
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.
HSC results 2016: Find out how your school ranked
Type in your school's name to see where it ranked in the 2016 HSC.
At 14, Hicham fled Homs. Today he topped his HSC course
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.
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.
The four things you need to know about ATAR
It's HSC results week. Here's all you need to know about changes to ATAR as a result of a Fairfax Media investigation.
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.