The state has created a two-tier public education system. But at what cost?
Some 17,559 children will sit the selective school test this week for 4200 places. Ninety per cent of them have been coached.
As thousands of Victorian students prepare for the select-entry schools entrance exam,there are calls for reform to the admissions process and the tutoring industry.
One of Sydney’s top-performing public schools will seek to cut costs and ask parents to pay more after its budget was slashed.
Michele Bruniges will use a speech at The Sydney Morning Herald Schools Summit on Wednesday to outline how public schools disproportionately educate disadvantaged students.
The four select-entry public schools outperform many of their high-fee paying rivals – but are not without their critics.
Select-entry government schools are supposed to be the great equaliser,but very few disadvantaged kids go to them.
The former principal of James Ruse has spoken to parents over the use of overtly racist language,including the N-word and students being called “slaves”.
North Sydney Boys deputy Matthew Dopierala will take up the principal’s position at rival selective school James Ruse,which ended its 27-year-reign as the top-ranked school last year.
One of the state’s oldest all-boys schools has bought a large inner-city office block that was once the headquarters of Sony Australia.