Almost 70 per cent of year 9 students will need to sit an extra reading, writing or numeracy test to be eligible for their HSC despite analysis of NAPLAN results revealing NSW achieved some of its best results since the national tests began in 2008.
Nine reports of sexual misbehaviour at the University of NSW has been made in the past week, compared to a total of three sexual assaults being reported between 2011 and 2016.
Explore the data from the Australian Human Rights Commission's investigation into sex abuse at 39 Australian universities.
About 7000 year 11 students will sit a new critical thinking exam this year, which has been developed as universities and employers stress that jobs of the future will require more than the traditional subjects taught in the Higher School Certificate.
A $261 million literacy and numeracy program to help the state's lowest-achieving primary school students had no "measurable impact" on their year 3 NAPLAN results, a new evaluation of the five-year plan reveals.
''I have learned that you need to think about what you say and filter your words so that you don't hurt others.''
For most of the 11,849 year 4 students who sat the "nerve-racking" opportunity class placement test on Wednesday, the results will be disappointing.
Doctors will spend far fewer hours diagnosing patients, accountants will do less maths, and direct instruction and grading will no longer be a major part of teaching, according to a new report.
More than 40 per cent of the 795,000 students in NSW's public schools do not list any religion on their enrolment form, according to new data.
NSW should consider selective primary schools for its most gifted students and give them the same early intervention as students with special needs, according to a leading academic in gifted education.
NSW's highly competitive selective school entry test is under review as the government moves to address concerns that wealthy families are buying their way into selective schools through expensive tutoring services.
A few hours after sunset on Thursday, the jacaranda tree that has been missing for nearly nine months was returned to the University of Sydney's quadrangle.
A Church of Scientology group has been targeting schools in NSW and Victoria with brochures and documentaries about the dangers of psychiatrists, antidepressants and ADHD medication.
Since he graduated from high school three years ago, Paul Nguyen has done about 1000 hours of paid work and 6000 hours of volunteer work at youth centres and councils.
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.
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.
Medical students want public universities banned from the "money-grabbing" practice of offering domestic full-fee-paying places for medical degrees.
A proposal to install surveillance cameras in classrooms to combat the abuse of children with disabilities has met opposition from the teachers' union.
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.
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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