Alexandra Smith is Education Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald
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.
Parents could be hit with higher fees for after-school care if Australia's two biggest providers of school-based care merge, the consumer watchdog has warned.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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