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The 50-year-old HSC student
Hekmat Alqus Hanna is the oldest student taking the exams this year. A humanitarian refugee from Iraq, he is determined to be a doctor again.
Hekmat Alqus Hanna is the oldest student taking the exams this year. A humanitarian refugee from Iraq, he is determined to be a doctor again.
A "once-in-a-generation" spike in enrolments will see a $4.2 billion spend-up over four years.
The overcrowding crisis in Sydney's primary schools is now hitting high schools, as the baby bonus generation starts secondary school and the growth in apartment living applies pressure.
Dale Clarke, 16, has never left Sydney's south west, but he and four special needs students are packing their bags for a trip to Cambodia to teach orphaned primary school students about Australia.
Only Romania and Turkey were ranked below Australia in education in the latest UNICEF report card.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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