Year 5 NAPLAN scores could be shaping career goals
Children as young as 10 are choosing a career path based on NAPLAN results and gender.
Reporter and social media assistant at The Sydney Morning Herald
Children as young as 10 are choosing a career path based on NAPLAN results and gender.
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 vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney has lashed out at the college.
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