Unqualified teachers burning out as they 'try to keep ahead of kids'
Five months after graduating from university as a language teacher, Anna Du Plessis was asked to teach geography.
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Pallavi Singhal
Reporter and social media assistant at The Sydney Morning Herald
'Huge skills gap': High school students falling behind four-year-olds
With the younger generation learning to code before they learn to read, today's high school students need to quickly catch up.
HSC students' wait for uni offers slashed dramatically
The body responsible for tertiary admissions moves to 'reduce the stress' of the month-long wait students currently face.
Three measures by which Australia's students are ahead of Finland's
PISA results conclude Australian students driven to do well during and after high school.
The lengths Seo Yoon went to for an Ivy League education
A 3½-hour critical reading, writing and mathematics test is at the centre of a booming tutoring market.
The high school students most likely to go to university
Girls who finished year 12 at a private school are most likely to go to university, as the gap between independent, Catholic and government school students who go on to higher education widens to its highest level in recent years.
'Like learning the telephone book': the reading challenge for schools
The phonics check will be based on the UK model of a 5-7 minute test in which students are asked to read aloud 40 real and made-up words.
Schools urged to abandon 'archaic stereotype'
As Alison Boston begins the hunt for a school for her four-year-old daughter Sadie, she knows one thing: she won't choose one that forces girls to wear skirts or dresses.
Unis will take students who do not meet new HSC standard
Year 12 students who fail to meet the state government's new literacy and numeracy standard and do not receive their HSC will still be able to get an ATAR and go to university, the body responsible for admissions has confirmed.
The Sydney school with 10 mass brawls a week and 50 suspensions a year
Mass brawls each week and teachers refusing to set foot in parts of the playground were common at Bass Hill Public School.
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