The ATAR scaling system is rewarding students who study the lowest-level HSC general mathematics course with up to 6.5 marks more than those who opt for the advanced 2-unit maths course, creating a 'loophole' that is pushing high-achieving students into the less challenging course.

Children exposed to at least a year and a half of private music lessons have an edge when it comes to detecting patterns in the world around us, with musical instrument training making their brains better at statistical learning.

John Giacon's decades-long dedication to the revitalisation of indigenous languages has been a sometimes difficult but ultimately rewarding pursuit.

Michele Allen was already working as a teacher when her husband proposed they home school their eldest son.

Catholic education bodies have slammed federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham for sending letters to principals with funding estimates that contained numerical errors.

"You should not rely on these figures for future planning or budgeting purposes," Mark Scott warned.

Fewer than half of all year 9 students are expected to achieve the required NAPLAN result.

Students with disabilities were given hours to apply for laptop access the night before test.

Regional university students will score treats from the federal budget goody bag, but most of the higher education sector will be left with crumbs as expected.

When Chiara Schwarz got to year 10, she had a decision to make: stay at Killara High School and do the HSC, or move to a private school so she could sit the International Baccalaureate.

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

The most stunning reversal of fortune over the past three decades is in computer science.

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.

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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.

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.

Staying after class has never been this fun.

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.

With the younger generation learning to code before they learn to read, today's high school students need to quickly catch up.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.