Labor has accused the state government of "appalling failure" in neglecting public schools after a freedom of information request revealed that some have maintenance backlogs that would take up to 40 years to fix.
They key to convincing people appears to be repetition – the more often something is said, the more likely it is to be regarded as true.
Lucrative training contracts for the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Defence have been awarded to a private college group that has been under investigation by the federal government.
The release of the list of colleges comes after a six-month freedom of information request in the NSW Civil Administrative Tribunal to have their identities revealed.
Public schools' share of students has increased for the second year running nationwide, marking a determined end to a 40 year decline in government school enrolments.
Mobile food delivery apps are making their way into Sydney schools, extending lunch menus beyond salad sandwiches and pizza pockets.
Victims in the spotlight
The long-serving head master of Trinity Grammar, Milton Cujes, has announced he will retire at the end of the year after a 41 year association with the Summer Hill private boys school.
As a new school year begins, parents should be more concerned by school bullying than cyber-bullying.
Gus Hutchison, 6, was up before everyone else in the house. Your first day at school will do that.
It will be a blazing start to the new school year.
For many, the first day of school will be a day of strong emotions and a few tears. And that's just the parents.
"It's no longer that you get ahead by tutoring, because everyone does it," says former student Calvin Yeung.
Grandmothers have emerged as the unlikely saviours of ethics classes in NSW primary schools, which are proving resilient despite the introduction of politically charged barriers to enrolment last year.
With students starting a new school year, many parents are once again feeling the pain of education costs with an increased focus on technology in the classroom.
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.
'When we reduce the quality of education that anyone receives we reduce the expectations we have of them.'
Girls from several schools around Australia have returned from NASA encouraged to pursue their passions in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
Sydney, by most measures, is going through a planning boom, and students are taking notice.
Barnaby Joyce's electorate is among the biggest beneficiaries of additional "Gonski" funding and among the likely biggest losers under the Coalition's school funding plan, a Herald analysis can reveal.
Interactive: Find out how much Gonski money has gone to your school.
Belinda Wall knows how to turn around a struggling school. When she became principal of Woonona High School in 2011, just 15 per cent of the HSC students went on to study at university.
University entrance standards have continued to slide as 44,000 students received offers to study at a NSW university on Wednesday.
See the courses that have risen and fallen as university offers are delivered to thousands of NSW students.
Interactive: Find out the minimum advertised entry marks for every degree in NSW.
The figures come as spiralling taxpayer-funded student loans look set to blow out to $11.1 billion a year by 2026.
Born eight weeks premature, Kirilly Lam was a fighter from the start. Eighteen years on, she's first person in her family to do the HSC and will soon start a nursing degree at Western Sydney University.
Sydney is the most expensive city for a private education in Australia, according to research released on Monday, with fees at some of the state's top schools rising at twice the rate of inflation.
It's a frustration commonly voiced by teachers and educators: the media dedicate far more coverage to issues that are in reality the least important when it comes to effective teaching and learning.
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.