The biggest exam of their schooling lives is over for more than 70,000 students across NSW. Now, about 5500 teachers across NSW are continuing with the mammoth task of marking 420,000 papers.

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The great Sydney divide- public versus private schooling- is more stark than ever with new figures revealing that nine out of 10 high school students in Dover Heights go to an independent school.

An "administrative error" has been blamed for the accidental publication, with confused students sending messages to the QCAA demanding clarification.

There has been an increase in the number of parents sending preschoolers to tutoring to give them a "head start".

When Vanessa Mera enrolled her eldest child in a Catholic school, she thought she was making the best school choice for her daughter but she quickly doubted her decision.

NSW could be falling behind other Australian states and the rest of the world in teaching students key life skills, according to a leading academic who is calling for schools to look beyond traditional subjects.

An HSC student is under investigation after he was allegedly caught livestreaming an exam on Facebook.

Rooftop playgrounds and basketball courts, expandable classrooms as well as sports areas and covered spaces that will be shared with the community.

Vice-chancellor Michael Spence said advocating a "yes" vote would compromise the university and have "a potentially chilling effect on debate".

Thousands of teachers at more than 100 Catholic schools across Sydney will go on strike on Wednesday morning as the union representing independent schools and the Catholic schools employment body struggle to negotiate a new enterprise agreement.

"I thought it was challenging but overall pretty good," Madison Yeoh said of Monday morning's physics HSC exam, but two questions had her stumped.

An international report on vocational education has used Australia as an example of how fast public education institutions can be privatised, amid growing concerns that TAFE NSW is moving to sell off more sites.

When Toby Bellew first sat down with his year 9 classmates to talk openly about their problems, the 15-year-old was surprised that his friends shared similar worries.

Two respected former members of the Somerville House School Council have joined the outcry against the school’s governing body, claiming they were kept out of decisions and slamming a “so-called ‘independent investigation’”.

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A convicted child sex offender has quietly exited the board of a top Sydney private school after a prospective parent conducting background checks inquired whether board members had any contact with children.

The governing body and subject of the protest has denied claims students who attended the protest have been given detention.

Somerville House principal Flo Kearney was stood down, effective immediately, on Wednesday.

In 2015, 15 students were suspended or expelled for falsifying doctor's certificates. In 2016 and 2017 this number jumped to 25 cases per year.

Some government schools will get hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra funding next year for programs such as literacy and numeracy support and additional staff, the NSW government's latest needs-based funding allocation figures show.

On Monday students around NSW sat the HSC maths exam. How would you perform? Here's a selection of the questions.

An insight into biotechnology as part of his HSC biology course helped Dylan Geraghty decide his future.

Teachers are under increasing pressure to be "counsellors, researchers or data analysts" as well as educators, a new global report has found, amid concerns that parents are expecting schools to pick up their "slack".

This year, more than 58,500 students - or 75 per cent of the year 12 cohort - are enrolled in at least one maths course.

Parents questioned if this latest resignation would be the last of the senior resignations, labelling the situation as a  “fast sinking ship”.

When Natasha Papworth was weighing up school options for her daughter, Grace, she had one overriding desire for her youngest child, who has grown up with three brothers.

When Brad Neimann was in year 2, he was doing year 5 maths. When he was in year 6, he became the first student to complete a Stanford University online maths course with full marks.

The Turnbull government's landmark higher education reforms have been killed off in the Senate, with the Nick Xenophon team rejecting key elements of the $2.8 billion package and calling for a "Gonski style" review of the university sector.

The head of the Australian National University says Chinese students are "open to new ideas".

In the past three years, so many students have started choosing science subjects for their HSC that Kirrawee High School has run out of laboratories.