Sydney mum Connie Scully says her 16-year-old daughter "has no idea" about money, and schools should be teaching students basic financial skills instead of higher-level algebra.

Former NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli has called for a commission of inquiry into the way Catholic schools spend their public funding.

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Good work is not rewarded with stickers or simplistic praise at Woonona Public School.

The government's digital services agency was not called to clean up after the test trial went wrong.

'You'll get left behind': What some law students aren't being told about success.

The Education Directorate is reviewing capacity in Canberra's schools.

There were 30 reported incidents of occupational violence against principals last year.

Since the beginning of the year, Inaburra School has turned the traditional concept of a classroom on its head and put all year 5 and 6 students into an open-plan room with five teachers.

Nellie Joseph, 14, got into an elite private school in Sydney's east on a rare sporting scholarship and plays touch football, waterpolo and netball, but she suddenly doesn't see the point of staying in school until year 12.

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Parents want children to solve problems, self-reflect and be compassionate, not "win" everything.

Students who have dropped out of university after an assault refused counselling, advocates say.

Enrolments in NSW Catholic high schools have dropped for the first time in almost 20 years.

Parents pay a high price for home educating children with a disability whose needs are not met by schools.

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.