8 h. ago WA students are turning their backs on ATAR. But they’re still going to university

A new report has shown the ATAR plays a smaller and more uneven role in university admissions than many WA students and their families may think.

Politics

17 h. ago Student hospitalised after stabbing sends Ellenbrook high school into lockdown

Emergency services rushed to Ellenbrook Secondary College just after 3pm, after what police described as a targeted attack involving a group of armed youths outside the college.

Politics

19 h. ago The State Library won’t be frozen in time. Change keeps us relevant

Students, researchers and scholars want to use the library in different ways – hiring out the spaces and evolving its services are necessary if it is to survive as a temple of engagement.

Politics

19 h. ago Private schoolboy allegedly lured, humiliated in human tunnel tradition

Police are investigating the alleged assault of a teenage boy during a gathering of students from Scots College in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Politics

25 h. ago Museum faces heat over gas company sponsorship of education program

The materials teach students about extreme weather, threatened species and ocean acidification, but omit a focus on the role of fossil fuels in driving climate change.

Politics

33 h. ago Six weeks and 13 million questions: Here’s how VCE exams are marked

Unreadable handwriting and unusual workings – assessors face more than a few challenges as they sort out what marks to give students around the state.

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33 h. ago Six weeks and 13 million questions: How VCE exams are marked

Unreadable handwriting and unusual workings – assessors face more than a few challenges as they sort out what marks to give students around the state.

Politics

43 h. ago In 37 years of HSC marking, Lindy always sees students make this mistake

Castle Hill High School’s English head is one of the longest standing HSC markers: one of just 30 to have marked students across four decades.

Politics

3 d. ago The change to visa tests that could help lower Australia’s drowning toll

A trial has embedded water safety knowledge into English courses done by foreign students and other migrants applying for jobs, visas and university courses.

Politics

4 d. ago ‘Greedy’: Murdoch Uni manager jailed for ‘strategic, persistent, corrupt behaviour’

A Murdoch University manager who funnelled more than $1 million worth of work to a company set up by his wife and his close friend will be in jail until 2027.

Events

5 d. ago ‘Everyone knows the hierarchy’: The selective school that attracts the most top

James Ruse was outperformed by two girls’ schools on a single metric, Year 7 NAPLAN results for the state’s selective schools reveal.

Politics

5 d. ago The top 200: Victoria’s star NAPLAN primary and secondary schools revealed

Principals at Victoria’s top-performing schools have shared how their students secured top marks for reading, writing and numeracy.

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6 d. ago How Brisbane’s 50 biggest primary schools performed in national tests

Students at some of Brisbane’s largest primary schools are among Queensland’s most improved, with state schools holding their own against top private schools.

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6 d. ago Man missing from NSW beach identified as former King’s School student

The search continues for an 18-year-old who went missing while swimming at a NSW beach, not long after graduating from a prestigious Sydney school.

Events

7 d. ago If Labor really cared about our future, these tax breaks must go

If you’re buying your fourth investment property, you’re a true-blue Aussie. But a student receiving rent assistance? You’re a fiscal burden.

Economics

7 d. ago How do we compete with Beijing when so few of us can speak Chinese?

The tiny numbers of students learning an Asian language is a “systemic failure” which will cost us dearly.

Politics

7 d. ago Truck driver jailed for injuring students in horror bus crash

Students who were seriously injured when a truck crashed into the back of their school bus can finally move on now the driver has been jailed, a principal says.

Events

8 d. ago Truck driver responsible for horror school bus crash jailed for 12 years

Brett Michael Russell will spend more than a decade behind bars after crashing his truck into a school bus carrying dozens of Loreto College students.

Events

8 d. ago Offshore and out of touch? The curly questions confronting Australian universities overseas

The University of Wollongong’s decision to become the first foreign university in Saudi Arabia has raised eyebrows across the sector.

Politics

9 d. ago WA students are using AI. How can schools make sure they’re still learning?

English teacher Peter Fallon reckons that, instead of resorting to old school methods, it’s better to reinvent the ways students are tested.

Politics