Private companies are gaining unprecedented access to students' personal and academic data, drafting NAPLAN questions and producing teaching and learning materials, prompting fears that businesses are dictating the focus of public education policy.
There would need to be "a seismic change in the way we deliver education" to lower university dropout rates by focusing more on career advice in schools, the head of the career industry's peak body says.
University of Canberra, Australian National University in inaugural Asia-Pacific University Rankings.
Australian universities have angrily rejected the Turnbull government's assertions they are receiving "rivers of gold" from the taxpayer and can easily absorb the funding cuts announced in the May budget.
The most sought-after public high schools and their strict catchment areas create a cycle of segregation between "rich" and "poor" schools and students.
Fast forward to 2030 and the children who started school in 2017 will need to be just as skilled in critical thinking, creativity and empathy as they are in literacy and numeracy.
The traditionally community-owned before-and-after school care sector is under siege.
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.
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".
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.
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