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This year, Harvard admitted a record high 20.3 per cent of students from modest or low-income backgrounds. Also, for the first time in a decade, a majority (50.1 per cent) of its admissions were female. There’s even an argument it's becoming so diverse it's ...

Most university students simply need to pass all their subjects to graduate. Teaching students, however, have to score in the top 30 per cent of the adult population in literacy and numeracy, in addition to passing their regular exams, to earn their ...

While certain experts think NAPLAN bizarre, parents and teachers, plausibly with more skin in the testing game, vociferously support it. Officeholders from the Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO), the Australian Parents Council (APC), and the Isolated Children's Parents' Association of ...

Sir Ken Robinson's 2006 lecture, Do schools kill creativity?, is apparently the most viewed TED Talk of all time. Regardless of that claim's veracity, it has been viewed 50,727,440 times and counting. Clearly, his words resonate. Now, he hopes to recapture audiences' ...

"Most importantly this report highlights there is no silver bullet...," Education Minister Simon Birmingham declared. By this, he meant there is no magic fix-all to the metropolitan/rural education standards gap, as proven by Emeritus Professor Dr John Halsey's newly-published report ...

A $23.9 million state budget boost will improve road safety around Victorian schools. The funds will be used to extend the school crossing supervisor program, improve pedestrian crossings, and install electronic variable speed limit signs on high risk roads. "School crossings ...

"I think a lot of people just assume confusion is absolutely a bad thing as a part of a learning process." "Huh?," one might reply to Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Jason Lodge. Along with his colleagues at his ...

Two years ago, people posted humiliating comments on Monique Mastrobattista's social media posts. Now, she receives adulation. "You go girl ⭐️," willbasill wrote on an Instagram snap of her posing with some X Factor contestants. "Such a inspiring young lady ?," galinanurmi remarked. Mastrobattista's story ...

In 2017, James Ruse Agricultural High became the top-performing NSW school for the 22nd consecutive year. In that same year, 97 per cent of its students were from a language background other than English (LBOTE). Though this correlation doesn't prove causation, it ...

What do you think parents value most in a school? Its academic reputation? Co-curricular activities and facilities? Its 'spirit'? The kind of children who attend? Or is it the quality of the teachers? A study has found that it's the ...