Sixty children aged from six months to five years of age at a Newcastle childcare centre were taught how to play with fire, powertools and knives – everything that most modern parents avoid.

Parents are concerned about smokestacks that may be built near their children's schools in North Sydney.

Men often go into teaching because they are interested in a particular subject while women want to shape children's future and make a social contribution, a new study has found.

Medical students want public universities banned from the "money-grabbing" practice of offering domestic full-fee-paying places for medical degrees.

At least one day a week, Amanda Lloyd's year 4 class can be found building shelters in the playground or drawing maps as they walk around the school.

A proposal to install surveillance cameras in classrooms to combat the abuse of children with disabilities has met opposition from the teachers' union.

Where do we go when we die? Well a small number of us will end up back at universities.

Students in public schools are missing out on important learning opportunities because of their parents' inability to pay, with one teacher saying parental attitudes are also to blame.

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Parent contributions top $500,000 a year at some NSW public schools, with 22 schools earning the same in voluntary fees as 1764 other schools, new data reveals.

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Rebecca Gallagher was less than six months into her first semester when she was found dead inside her University of Sydney college dormitory.

Students from three Sydney high schools will be able to get into university without having to sit HSC exams or get an ATAR under special agreements with a growing number of universities around Australia.

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Principals are increasingly forced to adjudicate spats on social media that involve "destructive comments" and "electronic abuse" that is hurled between students and parents, who use online forums to attack teachers or complain about their school.

The University of Sydney's vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence says the university has no plans to take over the residential colleges, following claims by a St Paul's alumnus that Dr Spence's recent criticism of the scandal-plagued institution is part of a bid "to get control of the colleges".

From tired looking demountables to old brick walls and even toilet blocks. Once drab Sydney schools are being transformed into works of art.

A Federal Court judge orders the federal government to no longer withhold funding to one of Australia's largest Islamic schools.

Students at NSW public schools are struggling with out-of-date computers and slow wireless networks and the key program that provides technology to all schools has not had a funding increase since 2004 despite soaring enrolments, a new Auditor General's report reveals.

Students will be able to see minimum and maximum ATARs for all university course offers from next month and the misleading term ATAR "cut-off" will be phased out, under a new national admissions transparency plan .

University of Canberra, Australian National University in inaugural Asia-Pacific University Rankings.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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".