Eryk Bagshaw is a journalist with Fairfax Media
A Sydney clinical aesthetics college run by an Order of Australia medallist has been told by the federal Department of Education that it intends to cancel the college's accreditation.
Sydney, by most measures, is going through a planning boom, and students are taking notice.
See the courses that have risen and fallen as university offers are delivered to thousands of NSW students.
The figures come as spiralling taxpayer-funded student loans look set to blow out to $11.1 billion a year by 2026.
It has been billed as a fun-filled working holiday program that would put an end to Australia's oversupply of teachers, but those who have travelled to the UK to make up for a chronic shortage of teachers have described it as anything but, with underpayment and over-work rife across the industry.
NSW education leaders are concerned an "incoherent" HSC mathematics syllabus "riddled with mistakes" has been rushed through by the Board of Studies before its transition to the NSW Education Standards Authority.
Distressed former students at a Sydney college owned by a prominent NSW political donor have claimed they were signed up to diplomas costing thousands of dollars just weeks before the beauty college collapsed.
Australia's peak Islamic body has refused to relinquish land being used by one of the state's largest schools despite the potential for such a move to save the school from being shut down.
A Sydney beauty college run by a prominent political donor has gone into administration, with up to 80 staff rocked by dismissal letters the day before Christmas Eve.
A man who was feted by former prime minister Julia Gillard is taking the University of Sydney to the anti-discrimination board.
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