More than half of all students starting a bachelor degree at an Australian university are now admitted on a basis other than their Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR), despite this cohort having one of the highest dropout rates.
A Canberra Islamic school is set to expand from 66 pupils to 600 students.
Children as young as 10 are choosing a career path based on NAPLAN results and gender.
One student was caught muttering into an iPhone, while others posted photos of the exam paper on social media from inside the exam room.
When Sabrina Ahmed stepped forward to lead a reading lesson in her daughter's year 1 class, her hands were shaking.
In future, students may be able to choose when and how much of the literacy and numeracy test they sit at once.
At least 2800 nursing and trades students and 143 staff at one of Australia's largest private colleges have been thrown a lifeline after the collapse of Careers Australia.
Five Australian universities are among the world's top 50 universities, according to a major global ranking.
Up to half of all teachers are leaving the profession in the first five years, and part of the problem could be the way the school day is structured.
The warden and chairman of the scandal-ridden St Paul's college have both retired a week after the most recent incidence of "sexist behaviour".
Charles Gray, who left school in year 8 and lived on the streets, is now halfway through a PhD in statistics and says she's "living proof" that anyone can go into the field of maths.
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.
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.
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.
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.