Horror films and septic toilets were among a range of topics discussed at the first state-wide P&C; assembly, according to the meeting's minutes.

When Rachel and Chris Allison stopped to take a look at their family's technology habits, they noticed a growing problem.

University of Southern Queensland graduates have the highest starting salary in the nation, according to this year's Good Universities Guide.

Until his early 20s, James* had no idea the internet existed. It was only after he escaped from North Korea that he leant about Google and Facebook.

The universities that are the hardest to get into may not be delivering the best experience or employment outcomes for their students, new research shows.

Kyle Sarigiannis, one of the state's top young soccer players and a high-achieving year 12 student, has his sights set on a leading US university with a prominent college sports program after the HSC.

Academics have accused the prestigious University of Melbourne of trying to stifle free speech.

The teacher who taught the wrong maths course to HSC students since the beginning of the year has been formally sacked by the NSW Department of Education.

NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes has ordered an investigation after several year 11 and 12 students at a NSW high school discovered that they were being taught the wrong maths course since the beginning of the year, and will need to catch up in less than two months to sit their HSC exam.

A suggestion that children dress up as the character from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has been slammed online.

One in five boys in year 3 have an emotional or behavioural problem that sees them lag about 12 months behind their peers in reading and maths, according to new research which stresses that the mental health of young people needs to be a focus in primary schools.

Students in NSW will not sit NAPLAN tests online until schools are confident they are ready to move from paper and pen, according to the Education Minister Rob Stokes.

The University of Sydney will for the first time publish its minimum ATARs for entry into most courses in a bid to provide more certainty for students.

Despite getting band 8s in two of his year 9 NAPLAN exams and sitting above the national and NSW average, Owen said he is "annoyed" by his results.

A Sydney high school has had to cancel several HSC trial exams and students will be forced to re-sit the tests after police were called to investigate the theft of three separate exam papers.

The University of Sydney's residential colleges, a number of which have come under fire for repeated sexual misbehaviour, will not be required to share the findings of an 18 month-long cultural review led by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick with the university or students.

Teachers are being told not to sign a confidentiality agreement covering question testing for NAPLAN online which is under way in hundreds of schools this month, in preparation for the move away from the pen and paper exam starting next year.

About 24 primary students are the first in the country to code science experiments that will be launched on a rocket to the International Space Station on Tuesday and completed by astronauts.

A primary school student with autism was restrained by teachers and locked in a time-out room for more than an hour, during which the student wrapped an electrical cord around their neck, a NSW Ombudsman's report reveals.

The former principal of an elite Sydney school is suing the school and two teachers for defamation following her resignation from the school, which came after more than 100 teachers signed a motion of no confidence in her.

Nearly a third of government high schools in Sydney are "neither efficient nor effective", according to a new study that finds poor use of resources by schools is often linked to students' low ATARs.

The Scots College is under pressure to expel two students who broke into the school overnight and stole physics papers before a trial HSC exam on Tuesday morning.

Children as young as five are displaying worrying sexual behaviour at school, prompting concerns that teachers are ill-equipped to differentiate between whether students are victims of sexual abuse or imitating what they see in music videos or internet advertising, new research reveals.

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Universities would be hit with $1.2 billion in funding cuts under the Turnbull government's higher education changes, with new data showing some institutions are set to lose up to $57 million over the next four years.

When Pokemon Go took over children's screens last year and most teachers were struggling to keep it out of the classroom, a school on the NSW central coast decided to incorporate the popular game into their science lessons.

The Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, which represents Catholic school employers, has applied to prevent teachers from taking industrial action.

The HSC is an "artefact of the past" that has passed its use-by date, according to a leading NSW Catholic educator who also warns that NAPLAN results are routinely misused and misrepresented.

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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.