A greater proportion of students in girls schools are studying STEM subjects than their peers in co-ed schools.

“Probably one of the big factors is that once children reach grade 6 ... a lot of these kids head off to boarding school.”

Teachers are urging the Andrews government to abandon any proposal to make students pass a literacy and numeracy test to qualify for the VCE.

• EXCLUSIVE

The Andrews government is examining setting minimum literacy and numeracy standards all students would have to meet in order to graduate from secondary school

Seven private schools are about to embark on a magnificent spending spree of $365 million on students' facilities.

A $25 million library designed to look like a Scottish castle is just one of the extravagant new features planned for Sydney's elite private schools.

Just one of the seven Gold Coast students affected by a suspected drug overdose remains in hospital as investigations continue into how the teens acquired the drug.

Just one of the Gold Coast high school students affected by a suspected drug overdose remains in hospital, two days after the dramatic incident.

The state government's unpopular policy that linked NAPLAN results to the HSC has been abandoned.

The party also wants to limit "unhealthy competition" from the private vocational education sector.

• ANALYSIS

Last year’s NAPLAN results finally gave the state government a reason to boast about education. But many say they came at a cost.

The most controversial NSW education policy has been dumped after widespread anger from parents and teachers.

"A lot of parents get more worked up about sport at school than how their kids are doing at school," the former NSW education minister says.

Several teenagers have fallen ill after reportedly taking an unknown substance at a Gold Coast School.

Mobile phones may have been around for years, but schools and policymakers are still grappling with how best to deal with them.

Students from across the globe set their sights on becoming future leaders.

Grade three children would start receiving career advice under a plan proposed to a Victorian parliamentary inquiry.

During the economic depression of the 1930s, a decision was made to build a handful of Brisbane schools out of expensive brick.

The role of a school head is widely discussed, analysed, judged – and often misunderstood.

A home-grown, close-fought academic competition now fields teams from Asia and Europe.

• OPINION

As tradies, there is no job we won’t tackle, but we’ll do it our way, on our terms.

A modest community project in Geelong has seen a 40 per cent reduction in the number of school students asking for homelessness help.

• EXCLUSIVE

Melbourne Grammar School has suspended a student who created a ‘’hit list’’ of dozens of his classmates and spoke about killing them.

• EXCLUSIVE

Catholic primary schools in Victoria are facing one of the most significant overhauls in their 150 year history

After making headlines as the girl who topped HSC engineering at a boys' school, Scarlett Pye got a phone call from a major engineering firm.

• OPINION

It is easy to talk big on education. It is another thing to implement the kind of changes that have a genuine, long-term impact on student outcomes.

Hundreds of students arriving for their first day of the year at NSW public schools last week found out that there were no classrooms for them, as the Department of Education scrambles to get at least 46 demountables into overcrowded schools.

NSW schools are already full to bursting point and the government must commit to prioritise new funding to fix the problems.

Teachers groups say a new push to make it easier to enter the profession would be similar to letting tradies into operating theatres to conduct surgeries, and will not be tolerated by parents.