Year 4 students were told they would never see their parents again as part of a school lesson.

Sydney's north shore suburbs are the state's most advantaged when it comes to education, but Paddington tops the overall list including having among the highest average NAPLAN scores in year 5 reading and numeracy.

Julia Cummins fell in love with the idea of space travel after spending hours stargazing from home with her family's telescope.

Australia is lagging significantly behind other OECD countries when it comes to the number of three-year-olds enrolled in high-quality preschool programs, and preschool leaders say a big part of the problem is low pay for early education teachers.

Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart wants Pauline Hanson to follow through and be part of the solution.

Leading English academics and former HSC chief examiners have warned that plans to make HSC English exams shorter and give questions word limits will make it easier for students to game the system and will "further fuel the HSC tutoring industry and its commercial gain".

A "once-in-a-generation" spike in enrolments will see a $4.2 billion spend-up over four years.

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.

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.

Afghani refugee Muzhgan Gafoori's dream is to get a good job.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.