National and NSW teachers' unions and education experts have strongly criticised Australian Education Minister Simon Birmingham's plan to introduce literacy and numeracy checks for all year 1 students, and say that it involves importing a test that has failed to improve reading skills in UK primary schools.

Education Minister Kate Jones says Queensland schools already assess students.

All year one students would undergo a national literacy and numeracy test, under a federal government plan to improve the detection of learning difficulties.

Grace Vegesana, in year 12 at Girraween High School, is planning to study law at university once she graduates, but said her perspective on the popular subject has completely changed since she learnt more about the disability and care sector.

About 200 students gathered around a few students who were making speeches and holding signs that read "It's ok to say 'no.' "

The LNP has described the program as "ideologically-driven" and called for an audit of available programs.

Australians are attending university at one of the highest rates in the OECD but the country has one of the lowest rates of graduates in science fields, which have some of the highest levels of employment.

Isabelle De Gioia, 12, is among the first group of year 6 students to sit the test to get into newly-created selective streams at Sydney's Catholic high schools.

New data shows ACT Catholic schools will receive 116.3 per cent of the school resourcing standard from the Commonwealth government.

The University of Sydney has been ranked fourth in the world for graduate employability.

Machines will facilitate one-to-one learning in an Eton-style education for all, Sir Anthony Seldon says.

Public school principals will be able to employ business managers to look after the day-to-day running of schools after new research revealed that principals spend too much time on administration and not enough time on improving teaching and learning.

Gayle King spends the same on preschool for her three-year-old son Harry as she does on her mortgage, but she said she sees it as an important investment in his education.

If their class runs for more than an hour, teachers at Emmaus Catholic College in Sydney's west will take students outside for a few minutes to do relay races or run around.

Four academics stood down for allegedly selling e-books to students which included compulsory tests.

If the new policy requiring students in NSW to pass literacy and numeracy tests to be eligible for their HSC stays in place, Sabine Piller is looking at moving her family to Victoria or Queensland.

Two Australian universities have been listed among the top 50 institutions in the world, amid warnings that they could soon be overtaken by Chinese universities that are quickly rising in the global rankings.

Student who feel their teachers have high expectations of them do better in NAPLAN and are three months ahead of their peers in their learning by year 9, according to research which shows a teacher's encouragement to work hard drives academic performance.

NSW schools will now have a standardised action plan to help teachers recognise and respond to asthma attacks.

Former NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli will quit politics next week to head up a new education research centre at UNSW, prompting the third byelection for the Berejiklian government this year.

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.