Having grown up the child of two high-achieving professionals and possessing the requisite academics, I commenced a law degree after school. Like the 99 per cent, I wasn't to know that the GFC would hit in 2008 – two years later. ...

Industry leaders have called for caps on places in teaching degrees, following an ABC report that universities are offering places to students who leave schools with ATAR scores close to zero. The figures are contained in a confidential report obtained ...

Education experts have been left questioning the value of the ATAR, after new figures showed just one in four students were entering university undergraduate courses based on their year 12 results. The latest paper by the Mitchell Institute at Victoria ...

Today's school students likely don't have any living relatives who survived World War Two. If they're undertaking the International Baccalaureate (IB), however, they may do well to know its postwar origins. In 1948, Marie-Thérèse Maurette, a French educator, was stationed in ...

It’s time to look beyond the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank. Australian universities have had it so good for so long. They expect and have become accustomed to secondary schools doing the university selection testing using the ATAR. At the completion ...

The Victorian Government has unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to base ...

University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...

The effectiveness of the ATAR system for qualifying for university places is again in the spotlight after the release of the 82 submissions to the Higher Education Standards Panel, many of which called for an overhaul of the system. Federal education ...

Raising the bar for entry into education programs isn’t the answer to better instruction and will make it harder to serve a growing population of students. By Kevin Donnelly ATARs and tertiary selection are controversial topics that have dominated much ...

In its long list of recommendations to the next federal government, the Grattan Institute is calling for tougher entry standards into teacher education. Grattan school education program director Peter Goss estimated there has been roughly one review every year, for 40 ...