Kelsey Munro is Acting Education Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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.
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.
Selective school James Ruse Agricultural High School has taken out the first spot in the Higher School Certificate for the 21st consecutive year.
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.
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.
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.
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