Former NSW education secretary and current University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott has defended spending millions of dollars on contractors to help build schools, amid a corruption inquiry into the man he helped hire to oversee their work. The NSW ...

A Brisbane high school teacher charged over allegedly grooming a 15-year-old boy has had her charges dropped. Chelsea Jane Edwards, 30, a sports co-ordinator at Indooroopilly State High School at the time she was charged, faced two counts of grooming a child, ...

A former senior Coalition minister has fronted a corruption inquiry into one of his own top bureaucrats, over claims the NSW Department of Education chief hired friends to complete jobs worth more than $12m. Rob Stokes, education minister under the ...

Health and Society and Culture studies remain the most popular for university applicants in NSW and the ACT according to the admissions centre. The University Admissions Centre (UAC) processed about 75,000 university applications last year and early this year for ...

The education minister has condemned the actions of a Sydney primary school that allowed students to opt out of an Anzac Day service, sparking outrage among parents and veterans, saying the decision “should not” have been made. Sherwood Ridge Primary ...

Content warning: This story contains content that readers may find distressing. The murderer of former St Andrews' Cathedral School sport's coach Lilie James engaged in stalking and coercive control-like behaviour and even rehearsed how he would kill his victim, a ...

A South Australian study confirms the advice long-given by teachers: students should never skip breakfast the morning of a test or exam. Students who skip food in the morning achieve worse results in NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and ...

The NSW and Qld premiers have confirmed more than 800 schools have been closed in South-East Queensland and the Northern Rivers ahead of Cyclone Alfred. NSW Premier Chris Minns and the Department of Education asked parents not to send their children ...

South Australian Australian Education Union (AEU) staff claim they felt threatened, devalued and distressed after being “berated” by a union secretary, a Fair Work Commission bullying hearing was told. Union staffer Howard Spreadbury sparked the action against his employer, the Australian ...

The largest single philanthropic gift ever given to a NSW university – and the biggest ever donation to the University of Sydney (USYD) – will go to girls from Western Sydney who dream of becoming scientists or mathematicians. The $100m ...