HSC
70,000 students put a difficult year behind them as HSC ends
The principal of the state's largest year 12 cohort faced a "mammoth" task: preparing 30 back-up HSC venues for 450 students.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Opinion
University
Don't be a HAAS-been, HSC leavers: the humanities will make you job-ready (just ask Kamala Harris)
Now the HSC is over, students wanting to study humanities and social sciences at university should not buy the hype and switch their preferences to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
- by Annamarie Jagose
Opinion
Opinion
Outdated HSC has failed the test of time
We need a different form of end-of-school credentialing that accurately reflects what our young people can do.
- by Greg Whitby
Education
Schools dispute the results of one HSC subject twice as often as any other
Principals questioned about 200 HSC results over the past five years, but one subject was responsible for a fifth of the queries
- by Jordan Baker
Teaching
New education centre aims to end culture war over student testing
Student testing has become a battleground for culture wars, warns the head of a new think tank aimed at restoring confidence in assessment.
- by Jordan Baker
Education
How patterns of study are shifting for HSC science students
Physics and chemistry enrolments have declined in the two years since new syllabuses were introduced, but teachers are not worried.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Education
Parents can return to school grounds for speech days, P&C meetings
When the HSC is over, parents and carers can begin returning to school grounds for presentation days, formals, graduation ceremonies and P&C meetings.
- by Jordan Baker
Updated
Crime
Teen arrested over copycat email threat at north Sydney school
A single threat was received by North Sydney Boys on October 29, which was inconsistent with emails sent to about 30 schools.
- by Laura Chung
Education
NSW Education Standards Authority defends 'cruel' HSC maths exam
NESA chief executive officer Paul Martin said he understood families were upset, but that the exams were designed to be fair and challenging for students.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Crime
School email threats originated in eastern Europe: Premier
North Sydney Boys High School was evacuated on Thursday morning after a threat was received on the phone, which is being treated as a local copycat incident.
- by Mary Ward
Education
It's the hardest question in the HSC. Could you solve it?
This year's brain-teaser was an "integration" problem: the technique used to figure out the area or volume of unusual shapes or curves. Whether you could crack it determined 11 per cent of your total mark.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos