Education

“Australia needs to kill Vocational Cringe for good. We need to kick the ATAR off its throne. We need to get skills back in our schools,” Sussan Ley said.

‘Failing our kids’: Coalition calls for shift on ATAR focus

Australia is ‘failing our kids’ and a concerted effort must be undertaken to reframe thinking about vocational education in schools and ‘kick ATAR off its throne’, the Coalition says. 

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A high school in Sydney’s southwest is in shock after an AI deepfake porn scandal.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has issued a new direction to his department.

Tony Burke orders go slow on student visas

The Albanese Government is imposing a de facto cap on international students by slowing down visa processing despite Peter Dutton blocking legislation to formally limit the numbers coming to Australia.

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Online HSC exams: NSW schools embracing huge digital shake-up in 2025, according to Gradeo report

NSW schools embrace move to online HSC exams with open arms

New South Wales schools are embracing the move toward online HSC exams in 2025 with a new report revealing teachers and students need digital examinations now more than ever.

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A Victorian education authority has come under fire after a year 12 exam paper blunder.

Outrage after Year 12 exams blunder left questions accessible

Some students sitting exams have potentially gained an unfair advantage over their peers after questions were accessible on sample papers.

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JENI O’DOWD: You don’t need a taxpayer-funded maths degree to know the Greens’ free university plan doesn’t add up

Greens’ free uni plan is just another looney tunes idea

JENI O’DOWD: You don’t need a taxpayer-funded maths degree to know the Greens’ free university plan doesn’t add up.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a 20 per cent cut on student debts.

Relief for Gen Y as Albo takes axe to student debts

Millions of dollars in student debts will be wiped for hundreds of thousands of graduates in a cost-of-living relief measure ahead of the upcoming election.

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Labor will introduce legislation next year to lift the minimum income repayment threshold by more than $10,000 a year

One million Australians to save $680 a year under new HECS-HELP changes

This cost-of-living relief applies to all graduates earning up to $180,000 per year.

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Some education providers are accused of lowering admission standards to "poach" foreign students.

‘Gagged’: Sick details of alleged college scandal emerge

More than 20 students at one of Australia’s most prestigious university colleges were allegedly involved in a ‘humiliation’ incident.

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A prestigious residential college at Sydney University has expelled six students over a serious bullying incident last week.

Six students expelled from elite college after bullying

An elite college has again been embroiled in scandal, with 27 students disciplined after a serious bullying incident last week.

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Some 95 per cent of NSW public school principals support a ban on mobile phones in the classroom. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Results in from state’s classroom mobile phone ban

A state government has shared the results that a mobile phone class ban has had on student learning, behaviour, and concentration a year after the initiative was introduced.

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The girl argued the school’s uniform policy was sexist because it barred her from wearing pants and meant she could face punishment if she didn’t comply.

Surprise reason schoolgirl lost ‘sexist’ skirt rule fight

A female student who took her school to the Human Rights Commission over its ‘unfair and sexist’ uniform policy has had her case dismissed.

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Seventeen Australian universities, including the University of Queensland, dropped down the rankings (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

‘Worst results’: Australia's unis plummet in world rankings

Australian universities have tumbled down world rankings, with some recording their worst result in the latest annual standings.

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Chevalier College in the NSW Souther Highlands has adopted a new approach to flexible learning. 

This NSW school has moved to a four-day week for some students. So, does it work?

‘Things can be done a little differently and we need to move with those changing ideas.’

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Chevalier College trialled flexible learning, allowing some student to study from home on Mondays.

School to permanently move to four-day week for some students

The school said it observed a number of positive outcomes during a trial.

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