James Ruse Agricultural High is again the top NSW school for 22nd year in a row, but Sydney Girls' High has returned to the top 10 list at number four and independent girls' school Ascham is the only non-selective school in the list of the best performers.
Find the elite achievers among the 68,816 New South Wales students who were awarded their HSC in 2017.
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Less than two years ago, higher education wasn't a possibility for Iranian refugee Masih Ghasemi.
When Bianca Ritter decided she wanted to study traditionally male-dominated subjects for the HSC, including construction and industrial technology specialising in timber, she says most people questioned her choices.
As many as 25,000 HSC students are expected to change their university course preferences once they have a "more realistic idea of the course they can get into", according to the body responsible for admissions.
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Nearly 25 per cent of year 9 boys across Australia are not meeting the national minimum standard in writing, with Education Minister Simon Birmingham warning the latest NAPLAN results should be a "wake-up call" for educators.
The top engineering HSC student at Randwick Boys' High School is a champion athlete. And a girl.
School zones in Kogarah, Ryde and Chester Hill are some of the most dangerous in the state, with more than 5000 traffic infringements issued in each in the 12 months to June.
Penelope Chen felt the pit of her stomach sink when she received her ATAR result.
It was 1967 and about 18,300 students who had sat the first HSC exams were waiting for their results to arrive - by post.
Education Minister, Rob Stokes, has ruled out allowing NAPLAN writing tasks in NSW to be marked by a computer, warning it is "preposterous" to suggest machines could do a better job than humans and described robo marking as "a direct attack on the teaching profession."
Finland's leading education expert, Pasi Sahlberg, will move to Australia next year to take up a role at the University of NSW in a move described as a "huge coup" for the university and its new Gonski Institute for Education.
It was after she had two children and was moving up the ladder in the banking sector that Tristan Landers, 43, decided to start a law degree.
The NSW government has bowed to pressure and will announce a new primary school in Green Square, which is expected to become Sydney's most densely populated suburb by 2030.
Australia's "misplaced reliance" on parental choice and competition between public and private schools may have created the conditions for declining student performance, warns a new paper investigating the "unsolved mystery" of worsening test scores.
As many as 32 per cent of women at University of Sydney colleges have experienced sexual harassment, a review of college culture has found.
Instead of going to class, about 140 nursing students were called to look after dozens of patients who were severely injured after a roof collapse at an 18th birthday party and a hospital fire in an aged-care ward.
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