Former Sex Discrimination Commissioner,Kate Jenkins.
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New data reveals how far Australian workplaces still have to go on harassment

The research shows that at a leadership level in particular,engagement with harassment policies is lagging.

  • byKate Jenkins

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Welcome to the Western Hemisphere

The revolution starts at stumps.

Lane Cove Public P&C president Caleb Taylor.

‘Another burden on families’:Parents push back against extra pupil-free days

The number of school development days at NSW public schools will rise from six to eight from next year,moving back the first day of term 1 to February 6.

  • byLucy Carroll
Up to 30 claims of rape,sexual assault,assault,sexual harassment,harassment,stalking or intimidation have been made since October last year.
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Thirty allegations of serious crimes – including sexual assault – lodged with parliament’s support service

The allegations prompted Brittany Higgins to ask if perpetrators working at the nation’s capital are being held to account.

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Digital illustration of school students with Australian cash.
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Sydney private school fees to increase by as much as 9 per cent

Parents will face school fee hikes in 2025 as teacher pay rises and surging operational costs drive up prices.

  • byLucy Carroll
Henry Lau is a Sydney High student who has balanced his burgeoning basketball career with the rigours of the HSC.

Studying in the locker room:How Henry balanced his HSC with professional sport

Among the 20,000 students cramming for the HSC Business Studies exam,17-year-old Henry Lau had his notes out in the Sydney Kings locker room.

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo
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HSC geography students from Concord High School after their exam.

‘Just relieved it’s all over’:Summer starts for final HSC students

The biggest cohort of students in the state’s history,71,619 pupils,can now say goodbye to school textbooks,teachers and HSC exam stress.

  • byChristopher Harris
James Ruse Agricultural High

New James Ruse principal poached from top rival school

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.

  • byChristopher Harris
Students releasing the white birds at Loreto Normanhurst in 2017.

The private schools,the pigeons and the anonymous letter

Animal activists have described the practice as cruel but pigeon-fanciers say they are well looked after and it is better for the environment.

  • byChristopher Harris
Any reduction in student debts will help the economy.

Criticising HECS changes misses the bigger picture

If Richardson wishes to campaign against tax breaks for those on higher incomes,he could choose to start with superannuation,family trusts,negative gearing,capital gains discounts and franking credits.

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Give them a break:Cutting student debt is a good investment

While Australians should contribute to the cost of their tertiary education,the current system has imposed an unreasonable burden on many young people.

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Minister for Education Jason Clare and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meet with TAFE and university students,at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 4 November 2024. fedpol Photo:Alex Ellinghausen

University fees to be reviewed nationwide in next phase of education overhaul

Labor has announced plans to cut student debt by 20 per cent but a planned government commission could permanently change fee structures.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Australia’s anti-cheating laws are facing their first test in court.
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Five students were caught cheating. Now it’s gone to court in a landmark case

The Federal Court will hear an Australian-first case after five students allegedly used a major company to cheat on their work.

  • byDaniella White
Students will receive relief from HECS loans from June 2025.

‘Profoundly unfair’:Coalition attacks Labor’s HECS debt cut plan

Australia will go to the polls with Labor proposing to slash student debts by 20 per cent and the Coalition lashing it as a burden on the rest of the country.

  • byOlivia Ireland
Them’s the bucks ... non-graduate taxpayers will be among the masses giving this $16 billion tax break to higher-paid graduates.
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Why Albanese’s HECS gift is a reverse-Robin Hood

If we give a $16 billion tax break to people on higher incomes who went to university,then we’ll have to get that pound of flesh from the people who didn’t.

  • byChris Richardson
Sydney University has hit out at the government.
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University of Sydney attacks ‘misleading’ figures as hundreds of sector jobs go

The university has accused the government of providing misleading figures about its foreign student cohort.

  • byDaniella White
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Albanese’s HECS relief won’t fix the core problem – the fees system is broken

Student debt has reached about $81 billion. The government receives far more in student repayments than it does from the gas industry through the petroleum resource rent tax.

  • byGeorge Williams
Drama students at Brigidine College
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Students could sit longer HSC exams in planned creative arts syllabus overhaul

Drama students could complete the HSC without external assessment and the music exam time would double under a proposal to overhaul the curriculum.

  • byChristopher Harris
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will face-off in Parliament on Monday with questions over flight upgrades likely to dominate.

Building a 2025 election win:Albanese starts campaign early

The next federal poll isn’t due until May,but the prime minister has kicked off proceedings with another large education promise aimed at TAFE.

  • byShane Wright
HECS relief is coming.
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Move to provide relief from crippling student loans is long overdue

Every Australian with a student debt will be relieved to learn the government has finally heeded their distress.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,left,and South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas,pictured in 2023,will attend a rally in Adelaide on Sunday.

Labor to wipe 20 per cent of HECS debts in $16 billion move

Tradespeople and university graduates will have a fifth of their student loans wiped in a striking Labor pledge to ease the debt burden on younger Australians.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Graduates to get early career reprieve from crippling student debts

The salary threshold at which student loans must be repaid will rise more than $10,000 a year under a federal Labor policy shift that will make the average HELP debt-holder $680 a year better off.

  • byJames Massola
UNSW has received its largest ever donation.

The big business of university philanthropy:UNSW lands largest ever donation

Big universities are increasingly relying on philanthropy to fund major projects.

  • byDaniella White
Sydney University is leading the field in converting casual academic roles to permanent tenured positions.
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Radical plan to slash student debts by tens of thousands of dollars

University debts could be slashed by up to 20 per cent under an Albanese government plan targeted at young voters.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Sydney Grammar expands
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Sydney Grammar’s $39 million inner-city expansion plans revealed

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.

  • byLucy Carroll
St Paul’s College in Sydney
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Latest St Paul’s scandal shows how quickly the proverbial car can hurtle out of control

Reforms have fundamentally transformed Australia’s oldest university college. But a serious bullying incident shows those in charge can never take their hands off the steering wheel.

  • byJordan Baker
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Lunch With Craig Foster - human rights activist and former Socceroo. Marrickville,August 15,2024. Photo:Rhett Wyman/ SMH

Craig Foster un-cancelled by Sydney Grammar parents

After the $40,000-a-year school controversially axed a lecture from the Socceroo-turned human rights campaigner,a group of parents stepped in.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
A serious bullying incident at the University of Sydney which led to six expulsions and another 21 suspensions took place during a mock trial,with one student gagged with a sex toy and verbally abused.
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Minister condemns St Paul’s College bullying scandal where student was gagged with sex toy

The incident that led to six people being expelled from the Sydney University college involved a mock trial with another student playing judge.

  • byJessica McSweeney,Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris
Marcus Wicher says the school community is grieving the"complete tragedy"that killed one child and injured four others on Tuesday.
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Auburn South Primary School principal issues statement following death of grade 5 student

Marcus Wicher says the school community is grieving the"complete tragedy"that killed one child and injured four others on Tuesday.

Woolooware High School HSC students Chloe Neudegg,Nina Qin,India Hulbert

‘Actually relevant to life’:The HSC subject popular with 20,000 students

The business studies exam is second only to the English advanced course and has overtaken biology in terms of popularity. Can you pass our quiz?

  • byChristopher Harris
The student is a resident at St Paul’s College
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Students expelled,suspended over St Paul’s College bullying

The Sydney University residential college has expelled students over “humiliation-type behaviours” among male students last week.

  • byLucy Carroll
England’s schools made a times tables check for year 4 students mandatory several years ago.

More pupil-free days and better teacher pay:The changes coming for NSW public schools

The state’s teachers agreed to a three-year pay offer from the NSW government on Monday morning. Here’s what else is included under the deal.

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo andLucy Carroll
Maths
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Why Australia’s maths crisis is at a tipping point and how we can fix it

HSC advanced maths,physics and chemistry enrolments have fallen,but experts say there are ways to reverse the decline.

  • byLucy Carroll
Music teacher Max Holtzner with students Charlie and Stella Mackenzie and Eve Barrington.

This HSC subject unfairly advantages elite school students,critics say

A leading lecturer in music education is concerned students are punished for studying certain types of music,but scaling experts say the system is fair.

  • byChristopher Harris
Jose Da Costa and Shankari Kathirgamalingam are starting Sydney Unis first 1970’s club.

Steely Dan and Taxi Driver:Meet the 21-year-olds obsessed with the 1970s

Jose Da Costa and Shankari Kathirgamalingam – both born in 2003 – have created the University of Sydney’s inaugural 1970s club.

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo
Suitable for primary school children,read by high schoolers:Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
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Teenagers are still reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Do we have a reading problem?

Teenagers are consuming fewer books that require sustained focus,which is negatively affecting the size of their vocabularies.

  • byChristopher Harris
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The student will receive more than $1.2 million in damages.

Former Sydney student set to receive over $1m for violent bullying attack

The “appalling” assault on the then 14-year-old was filmed and posted to Instagram,a NSW Supreme Court judge said.

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
They bring love and joy to your household,but pets also come with many expenses.
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At school,they advised me to become a vet. They were so wrong

There’s so much pressure on school finishers to know what they want to do with their lives,but it’s a lifetime process.

  • byCherie Gilmour
A new study suggests there is racial bias in how academics respond to students.

Staff at these top unis were found to favour white students. Then came the threatening calls

Academics responded more positively to emails from prospective students named “Melissa” compared to “Rahul”.

  • byDaniella White
Many primary school principals have reported difficulty filling teaching jobs.

Schools to start late,cancel classes as thousands of teachers stop work

Parents have been told there will be minimal supervision at the state’s schools on Monday.

  • byLucy Carroll
An historical source used in the HSC Modern History exam from Nazi Germany.

A Nazi cartoon featured in this year’s HSC exam. Some private school students had seen it before

A cartoon that was used in trial exams purchased by numerous private schools reappeared in the HSC.

  • byChristopher Harris
Student Bowen Wu at North Sydney Boys attempts the final question in the HSC extension 2 exam.

More than 3500 students faced the toughest HSC maths question. Bowen solved it

Students sat the gruelling three-hour HSC maths extension 2 paper on Monday,with students quizzed on mechanics and complex numbers.

  • byLucy Carroll
Question 16 of the HSC mathematics extension 2 is the most difficult of the three-hour exam.
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Watch student Bowen Wu solve one of the hardest HSC mathematics questions

Question 16 of the HSC mathematics extension 2 is the most difficult of the three-hour exam.

University of Sydney chancellor,David Thodey (right) with vice chancellor Mark Scott and former chancellor Belinda Hutchinson.

New Sydney Uni chancellor weighs in on Mark Scott controversy after months of turmoil

New chancellor David Thodey said the university sector was under unprecedented scrutiny in politics and the media.

  • byDaniella White
Simon Oye,Emily Blumoser and Sam O’Driscoll after the maths exam on Monday.

HSC maths exam asks for more words and fewer numbers. Can you pass the test?

It is the second year in a row that mathematics students have been told to eschew calculations in their exam for some questions and answer in sentences instead.

  • byChristopher Harris
NSW is the capital of selective schooling in Australia.

Hundreds of parents appeal their child’s rejection from selective school. Only a handful will win

Analysts say the proliferation of coaching colleges is giving parents false hope and misguided notions about how talented their child is.

  • byChristopher Harris
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The stimuli used in Tuesday’s HSC exam that publisher Florian Schroeder has said is AI generated.
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This controversial image stumped HSC students. Now its creator is weighing in

The person behind the controversial image used in Tuesday’s English HSC exam has confirmed that it was made by artificial intelligence.

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo
Universities have been accused of compromising standards due to accommodate for an influx of foreign students in postgraduate degrees.
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‘Google Translate,fractured English’:The sandstone unis accused of dropping academic standards

Universities have been accused of compromising standards to accommodate for an influx of foreign students in postgraduate degrees.

  • byDaniella White
Pro-Palestine protesters in Sydney

Parents condemn plans to bring Gaza protests into the classroom

The Parents&Citizens Federation has condemned some teachers’ plans for pro-Palestinian activism in our schools.

  • byMax Maddison
Sydney Grammar Latin students

‘Maths with a soul’:The HSC subject that has only 114 students

Few students have the opportunity to study Latin. Here’s how Friday’s Extension exam went for them.

  • byLucy Carroll