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The university degrees that students are avoiding in droves
The most stunning reversal of fortune over the past three decades is in computer science.
The most stunning reversal of fortune over the past three decades is in computer science.
Labor says the Berejiklian government is only pretending to take action on state school maintenance.
University leaders have lashed out at the Turnbull government's proposed cuts to higher education funding.
A student is in hospital, another has been suspended and a police investigation is under way after a teenager was allegedly stabbed in the eye with a pen at a high school in Sydney's north.
A leading finance company will let year 12 students bypass university and begin working as accountants and risk management consultants straight after high school from this year, and at least five other companies are in talks to do the same.
Teachers have gotten hours back in the classroom and students are more engaged since Allambie Heights Public School stopped giving homework.
Girls are better at literacy from the age of 4 but boys aren't any better at maths until the age of 8, according to a new study of NAPLAN data that has major implications for parents and teachers.
A 14-storey high school will be built in inner Sydney as the government scrambles to meet a surge in enrolments.
Public universities could be pushed into a "precarious" financial position if their funding is cut in the federal budget, the peak body representing Australian universities has warned.
Five months after graduating from university as a language teacher, Anna Du Plessis was asked to teach geography.
Students will not be taught the new advanced HSC maths courses until 2019, after teachers and academics were highly critical of the draft syllabuses and warned they should be delayed rather than rushed in.
With the younger generation learning to code before they learn to read, today's high school students need to quickly catch up.
The body responsible for tertiary admissions moves to 'reduce the stress' of the month-long wait students currently face.
PISA results conclude Australian students driven to do well during and after high school.
A 3½-hour critical reading, writing and mathematics test is at the centre of a booming tutoring market.
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.
The NSW education minister, Rob Stokes, will dump the Safe Schools program and replace it with a new anti-bullying strategy when federal funding for the program runs out later this year.
A new report, using the results from the largest ever high school survey of its kind, found there was a gender gap between boys and girls on most measures of student engagement and wellbeing.
At one school, parents says there are 60 girls to a toilet and children access the playground in shifts.
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.
More than 100 teachers at the elite Sydney girls' school, Kambala, signed a motion of no confidence in the former principal, Debra Kelliher.
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.
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