Sydney University's St Paul's has made a last-ditch effort to join a university-wide review of college culture.

The Turnbull government has been accused of misleading parents about the impact of its Gonski 2.0 school funding changes.

The vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney has lashed out at the college.

Sydney Catholic schools have retreated from earlier warnings about potential $5000 fee rises.

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Given everything is changing, how can we equip our children – and ourselves – for the jobs of the future?

There will be fewer staff and less space to teach visual arts students when the Sydney College of the Arts is moved to the University of Sydney's main campus.

For the first time next year, HSC students will learn about pre-1788 Aboriginal history.

Principals have told a NSW parliamentary inquiry they are struggling to keep classrooms safe because of a lack of funding to teach children with disabilities and special needs.

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.