'Falling apart': Government comes up $385m short on fixing schools

Labor says the Berejiklian government is only pretending to take action on state school maintenance.

Vice-chancellors hit out at fee hikes, funding cuts

University leaders have lashed out at the Turnbull government's proposed cuts to higher education funding.

Student stabbed in eye at Sydney high school

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.

The big finance company that no longer requires you to graduate uni

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.

How a Sydney school solved the homework problem

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Teachers have gotten hours back in the classroom and students are more engaged since Allambie Heights Public School stopped giving homework.

Why only some boys are better at maths

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.

New Sydney high-rise school for 1200 students revealed

A 14-storey high school will be built in inner Sydney as the government scrambles to meet a surge in enrolments.

Budget cuts would put universities in 'precarious' spot

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.

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.

Revamped HSC maths syllabuses to be delayed

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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.

'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.

State government to dump Safe Schools program in NSW

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.

How we are making boys feel like they belong at school

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.

One toilet per 60 children: Sydney's most overcrowded schools revealed

At one school, parents says there are 60 girls to a toilet and children access the playground in shifts.

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.

More than 100 Kambala teachers signed no-confidence motion in principal

More than 100 teachers at the elite Sydney girls' school, Kambala, signed a motion of no confidence in the former principal, Debra Kelliher.

'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.