Julie Bishop and Genevieve Bell at the ANU’s School of Cybernetics launch in 2022

Allegations of ‘serious misconduct’:Inside the latest ANU controversy

The ANU says vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell is on study leave,following the revelation of damning allegations.

  • bySally Rawsthorne

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The Federal Court judgement comes as Chegg faces problems on multiple fronts in a battle with AI.

Study company helping Australian university students cheat sued in landmark court case

Providing a cheating service to Australian university students has cost study support business Chegg half a million dollars plus legal fees.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Students in Sydney Catholic Schools are regularly tested for giftedness.

Every school will offer ‘gifted’ education. But who decides who is gifted?

Schools are trying to assess who is gifted. Portfolios,IQ and psychometric tests are all in the mix. But is that right?

  • byChristopher Harris
Professor Eva Kimonis coaching Erin and her son at a Parent-Child Interaction Therapy clinic.
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In these Sydney primary schools,therapists observe children behind a one-way mirror

For years,Micah responded to his parents’ every mundane daily request with tantrums,screaming and yelling. One program changed that.

  • byKate Aubusson
Iain Anderson says the National Student Ombudsman’s office has been flooded with complaints that could be dealt with by the universities but students “don’t feel safe”.
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‘Too focused on money’:University ombudsman’s verdict after a year in the job

After receiving 5000 complaints,the National Student Ombudsman has urged universities to slash bureaucracies and put students at the heart of their operations

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Labor’s Dr Sarah Kaine said “universities should be preparing for closer scrutiny.”

‘Not fit for purpose’:Two NSW universities called out by inquiry

An upper house inquiry has singled out universities it believes the audit office should examine.

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Author Deborah Kelly

Parents didn’t like a character in a primary school book. Then it was pulled

Parents wanted the book removed from schools,saying it should never have been published.

  • byChristopher Harris
Leanne Baddah on the Macquarie University campus during a school day.
Analysis

Leanne is finding it difficult to make friends at uni. She’s not alone

An “epidemic of loneliness” at Australian universities is weighing on students as a vicious cycle of online learning leaves the campus experience less appealing.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Attending a lower quality childcare is linked with poorer development outcomes.

How many hours of childcare is best for kids,and how much is too much?

Children who were enrolled for more than 40 hours per week had the highest rates of developmental vulnerabilities,major government research tracking 274,000 Australian children has found.

  • byChristopher Harris
A car park on the Macquarie University campus on Tuesday.

$4189 to park on campus? Cost-of-living crisis comes for university students

As they grapple with fees of up to $50,000 for an arts degree,uni students also face higher and higher costs for other necessities to study.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Pymble and Newington paid their executive teams in excess of $5 million in 2024.

The Sydney private schools where teams of executives earn $5 million plus

The growth paid to “key” managers at the city’s private schools comes after sharp increases in fees.

  • byChristopher Harris
Senator Matt O’Sullivan is leading the Coalition’s childcare policy.

Coalition pushes for powers to more easily sack childcare workers

The move comes after the sector was rocked by allegations of that workers were sexually abusing children.

  • byBrittany Busch
Jane and Paul Conte,with daughter Nia,say parents were not properly consulted on changed to Lindfield Learning Village.

‘Its identity is being erased’:Frustrated families speak out against Lindfield school changes

An alternative school with no uniforms or report cards is being subsumed into the mainstream education system and parents are not happy.

  • byEmily Kowal andChristopher Harris
Increasing instances of bullying and intimidation in schools has coincided with falling teacher confidence in managing poor behaviours.
Opinion

I approached a woman in a pub. It was a vital step toward becoming a good man

A generation of young men are being drawn toward voices that promise power,certainty and identity. Schools can’t keep looking the other way.

  • byAdam Voigt
Inside Lindfield Learning Village.
Editorial

End of an educational experiment as LLV embraces old school ties

The NSW Education Department is going back to tradition to attract people to public education.

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Matthew Harman and Perryn Herron at Lindfield Learning Village.
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Sydney’s alternative school goes mainstream – and gets a new name

The north shore high school that parents have shied away from is preparing for catchment changes – starting with a uniform.

  • byEmily Kowal
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Stormer Music founder Phil Stormer (centre) and former staff of Australia’s largest music school.

How Australia’s largest music school disintegrated

The Stormer brothers,inspired by Silicon Valley,hosted a yacht party to celebrate their education empire. Now they are accused of fleecing staff,students and parents.

  • byEryk Bagshaw andLia Timson
Parents Stephanie Dunstan,Nicole Done,Hong Ly,and Alena Maher with their children from Glebe Public School.

Parents can shape their child’s school – for better or worse

Much has been said about the declining number of students in NSW’s public education system.

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Parents Stephanie Dunstan,Nicole Done,Hong Ly,and Alena Maher with their children from Glebe Public School.

The public parents fighting the flight to private school

Glebe Public has great academics but it also has falling enrolments and a bad website. So the parents launched a “brand awareness” campaign.

  • byChristopher Harris
UNSW has had their engineering course in Sydney recognised in the world’s top 10.

Revealed:The Australian universities boasting some of the best courses in the world

Four engineering courses have been ranked in the world’s top 10,while 13 data science and AI courses are in the global top 100. Search our table to see more.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Wo are you calling stupid? Gavin Newsom greets Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport last year.
Opinion

Too ‘dumb’ to be president? No,Mr Trump,he’s dyslexic – like Einstein and me

So Donald Trump thinks a dyslexic person can’t become US president,but America has already had such a leader.

  • byGeoff Lee
Parents are being abusive and demanding towards teachers and making extreme demands on their time.
Opinion

Banning aggro parents from schools is a good move. But don’t stop there

Parents are mad and getting madder. Some are angry and violent. They are putting teachers at risk. But this is far from the only problem our educators are confronting.

  • byJenna Price
Almost 80 per cent of Australian children and teenagers surveyed by the eSafety commission said they are using AI chatbots.
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The AI chatbots ‘entrapping’ Australian children through sexual content

Almost 80 per cent of Australian children and teens are turning to AI companion bots. The statistic has experts worried.

  • byEmily Kowal
Rising education costs are increasingly being picked up by grandparents.
Editorial

Schools principals and the need to discipline unruly parents

Some educator’s email addresses are being cloaked for fear staff will be harassed or abused or that they will be expected to respond instantly at all hours.

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The principal has been called names and threatened.
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Aggressive,entitled parents to be banned from school in behaviour crackdown

Principals will be given the power to prevent those who engage in unreasonable or threatening behaviour from coming within 25 metres of school grounds and contacting teachers.

  • byEmily Kowal andSally Rawsthorne
An Australian-first study has revealed bad sleep and problems at home are among the factors contributing to poor teenage health.
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Revealed:The biggest predictors of depression,anxiety in teenagers

Bad sleep and trouble at home can set adolescents on a trajectory towards depression and anxiety,an Australian-first study reveals. But some things can help.

  • byKate Aubusson
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The school was put into lockdown and police were called,which led to the arrest of a student.

Teen charged after allegedly firing air gun at Rose Bay school

The 15-year-old boy spent the night in police custody after he allegedly fired an air gun at another student at Rose Bay Secondary College.

  • byEmily Kaine
The first of the academics made redundant in a major restructure will leave UTS next week.

Why this Sydney university is under fire from three directions

UTS is fending off problems on multiple fronts,with staff on strike,a damning report and the disappearance of a pathway for year 12s.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Michele Bullock,governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Level heads needed to see bigger picture after rate hike

The latest increase in interest rates is more about rising oil prices than domestic-driven inflation.

Pantxo Wall,a Surf Coast Secondary College student and Olympic snowboard hopeful.

Olympic hopeful told to repeat year 11 after missing too much school while training

The free ride snowboarder,currently ranked fifth worldwide,has found himself on the wrong side of the school’s attendance policy after what his family claims was miscommunication.

  • byJackson Graham andPeter Ryan
AI is coming for white-collar jobs. What are students doing

The kids are watching the AI job carnage. What are they going to do?

Asking Gen Z to decide what career to pursue is an increasingly difficult task. Experts say there is “absolutely no occupation that is completely immune from AI”.

  • byBronte Gossling
Dani Hacket with son Xavier who was caught in the selective exam chaos last year and Naplan this year.

‘Not good enough’:NAPLAN test failure run by same company as selective school chaos

Xavier Hacket was caught in two meltdowns caused by tech company Janison. His mother says it’s not fair.

  • byEmily Kowal
Daniel Yacoel has found his mental and physical health have improved since ending his medicinal cannabis prescription four months ago.

The $300 a week medicine Daniel feels better without

Daniel Yacoel is one of hundreds of thousands of Australians prescribed medicinal cannabis for a mental health condition but there is little evidence it works.

  • byAngus Thomson
A shocking video has emerged of a group of students tormenting a relief teacher,running rampant in a Perth classroom.
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Students torment a relief teacher in Perth

A shocking video has emerged of a group of students tormenting a relief teacher,running rampant in a Perth classroom.

Blakehurst High School captains Ethan Middleton,17,Lisa Li,17,Violeta Duvnjak,16,and Matthew Liang,16
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Revealed:The state’s most improved schools in the 2025 HSC

Results from 2019 to 2025 were used to identify where was the biggest uptick in the proportion of students achieving band 4,5 and 6 results.

  • byEmily Kowal
Students want to know about employment outcomes,research opportunities and the effect on their career choices.
Opinion

Lazy students are welching on our uni group assignments. It’s dragging down my marks

If a student isn’t at a level where they can pass a subject,they shouldn’t be able to sail by on the back of someone else’s work.

  • bySaria Ratnam
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Sean McLoughlin teaches Irish language classes in Sydney.

The ‘endangered’ language having its moment in a Sydney pub

Two years ago,the Irish language school had 20 or 30 students attending lessons,now it has between 70 and 80.

  • byAidan Elwig Pollock
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My son’s school trip to Canberra’s in doubt. That should worry every parent

Swimming lessons,the zoo excursion and overnight camps:these important markers of childhood are now out of reach for many families.

  • byMatt Sharpe
Bill Shorten,full of sound advice

‘Morphine drip’:Shorten warns of international student addiction,calls for new tax to fund unis

In a major intervention on the future of tertiary education,Bill Shorten says the broken higher education system forces universities to act as migration levers rather than centres of research.

  • byRob Harris
An emblem for Bondi shooting victim Matilda tied on a tree in Bondi Park.
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Sydney primary school student ‘celebrated’ Bondi terror deaths

The western Sydney public school’s incident is among at least 100 examples of antisemitism in schools since 2024,NSW budget estimates has heard.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Alexander Kersten’s year 5 NAPLAN exam was disrupted on Wednesday due to connectivity issues.
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‘It was kinda stressful’:Kids forced to restart NAPLAN tests after tech issue

Students were unable to log on to the online platform when the standardised tests kicked off this morning.

  • byEmily Kowal
Mia Russo says there are no downsides to the early entry schemes.

Mia got early entry to the uni course of her dreams. But is it killing the ATAR?

Early offers give students and universities greater certainty,but there are fears they undermine the whole point of ranking HSC results.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Siblings Sharvil and Shanaya Pandir have been tutored for NAPLAN.
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NAPLAN boss issues warning to parents on ‘horrendous misuse’ of student results

Some schools are using the exam results in assessing a student’s suitability for enrolment.

  • byJackson Graham,Ellie Busby andCindy Yin
A student sits the NAPLAN exam in 20024.
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Testing chief decries use of NAPLAN scores as entrance exam for private schools

A competitive culture is emerging around the national test,and the NAPLAN head has urged parents to refuse requests by in-demand schools to provide results when trying to enrol their children.

  • byJackson Graham
Children’s brains are hardwired to learn,and learn fast.
Opinion

Allow students to use this ‘sneaky drug’,just not at assessment time

We should welcome AI into all aspects of learning,but we’re already playing catch-up when it comes to restricting it from all forms of assessment.

  • byEd Cavanough
Former Condell Park High School student Jad Salamah has reached a confidential settlement with the Department of Education after being banned from his school formal for wearing a keffiyeh-patterned scarf to his graduation.

Public schools signal ‘cultural’ Palestinian scarf can be worn following accusations of racism

Jad wore his family’s keffiyeh to graduation but that got him banned from his formal.

  • byKate Aubusson andMatthew Knott
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Sarah Peddie-McGuirk and James Turnbull with their children,Henry,6,and Sadie,4.

Sarah thought she had years to pick a high school. By year 3,kids were already leaving

As public education in NSW recorded 7000 fewer students last year,can anything be done to stop the parent rush to private schools?

  • byChristopher Harris
Twelve Jenny’s Kindergarten centres have changed hands in NSW.
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Major childcare company exits Sydney centres after repeated breaches

One of Australia’s largest childcare providers has been almost entirely shut down,after 12 of its centres recorded almost 500 confirmed breaches since they first opened.

  • byEmily Kowal
Eating disorders are on the rise in children,experts have warned.

Eight-year-olds taping stomachs flat:Alarm raised over eating disorders in children

Eating disorders are soaring in Australian playgrounds with experts and teachers noting increased prevalence,particularly among younger age groups.

  • byEmily Kowal
Barker College students Oliver Porter and Jiaqi Wan with robotics teacher Jeser Mross Becker safely back at the school.
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Inside the mission to rescue Sydney students from a war zone

In the dead of night in a Dubai hotel,14 Barker College students found themselves in the crossfire of a rapidly escalating conflict. This is how they escaped.

  • byEmily Kowal