Victorian students woke to the sound of the ATAR alarm yesterday morning as their senior exam results were released from 7am, before the rest of the year 12 students in Australia who will receive their final marks in the coming ...

Universities and tertiary admissions centres are allowing year 12 students across Australia to apply for – and accept – course offers to university before they sit their final exams, complete year 12, and receive their ATAR. Critics of early university ...

Bellbird Park State Secondary College’s (BPSSC) foundation principal has won several elite education awards this year and credits his success to the team he has built around him. Michael West was named government school principal of the year at the ...

Over 20 south coast schools closed on Tuesday ahead of end-of-year exam season after the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued a heatwave warning for NSW on Monday afternoon, as temperatures were not due to fall below 18°C for next three ...

Western Australia's Minister for Education Tony Buti has made it clear to universities he does not appreciate their lack of transparency in handing out unconditional early entry offers to secondary students. The minister expressed his skepticism in parliament on August ...

Haileybury Rendall School (HRS) in Darwin has received approval from the Northern Territory government to open its virtual classrooms in 2024 – becoming the first private online school in the territory. Haileybury Pangea Online ‘Pangea’ offers access to top-tier schooling ...

A University of Queensland (UQ) first-year student is equipping year 11 and 12 ATAR students with interactive peer-to-peer learning ahead of this year's preliminary and Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) exams. Oliver Barr-David, founder of Queensland Study Hub, has turned ...

Sydney students are going to extreme lengths to get ahead in this year’s HSC exams with reports some are skipping school to cram in more study time at home. Sydney Boys High School principal Kim Jaggar has written to parents ...

Students who gain university entry on a non-ATAR basis are twice as likely to drop out in their first year compared to other school leavers, new research shows. A recent report from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) argued the ...

New data from the University Admissions Centre has shown that young men are less likely to achieve an ATAR than women and don't perform as well in their first-year university courses. According to Deakin University lecturer in education Piper Rodd, ...