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A look at almost 3000 students over 11 years found no difference in a selective student's likelihood of landing a job or going to university.

Students who sit their exams in large indoor spaces with high ceilings, have lower than expected scores, according to new research.

The 61-year-old was helping retrieve balls from the roof of one of the buildings when he fell through a skylight, dropping more than three metres to the ground.

Lara Warwick had been working as a high school teacher for 18 years when she made the decision to quit her job last year so she could homeschool her own two children full time.

Australian exporters were rocked by a campaign of economic bullying from China four years ago. Now relations with Beijing are improved, but how have those industries that were singled out fared?

In a letter to parents and carers, the principal said police were told of alleged concerning behaviour towards a student.

The state government has invested $16.3 million to deliver nearly 40,000 new apprentices and trainees.

The government report has shone a light on the systemic issues within the education system, with taxpayer-funded upgrades historically favouring popular schools.

The QS World University Rankings 2025 list for top global universities has been released.

The South Australian government has put $715 million on the table over the next five years to fund preschool for three-year-olds.

More than 20,000 students were expelled or suspended in Queensland due to physical aggression last year.

One-in-six of the 13,437 Australian students surveyed said classmates had made fun of them

They were a planned stop-gap measure, but numbers of demountable classrooms in NSW public schools remain in their thousands.

Programs to fight radicalisation and extremist views are a "public health issue," says one expert.

Some Year 11 boys shared a disturbing spreadsheet on social media describing their female classmates in derogatory language.

"Gender violence starts from teaching our young people, what is consent, and teaching them about equality and teaching them about respect."

Teachers in Western Australia walked off the job today for the first time in 10 years, calling for better pay and working conditions.

More than 80 schools across Western Australia are set to be affected by a planned half-day strike by teachers tomorrow.

Students at the UK school would be required to start at 7am and engage in extra-curricular activities after finishing classes.

Uni graduates are being urged to consider a career in the force, with significant financial rewards.

Parents from a Brisbane primary school are planning to protest on Monday if their children are forced back into classrooms where they were potentially exposed to asbestos.

Pieces of asbestos material rise to the surface of the Crawford Public School's playground whenever it rains, a byproduct of the school's construction in the 1970s.

Under attack from the government, the university says it is proud of the community it has created for its students.

Hundreds of primary school students have been pulled out of their classrooms potentially exposed to asbestos. 

The government says new powers will help stop international students from being exploited.

Finland has so much to offer, and a high quality of life is one of the foundations to Finnish society and a strong social welfare system that supports the population.

Students across the country will sit their NAPLAN tests today, putting their reading, writing and mathematics skills to the test.

The South Australian Government has unveiled a multi-million dollar campaign in a bid to remind parents of the critical importance of reading to their children, particularly during the early years of development.

Maths will remain an optional subject for year 11 and 12, the NSW Education Standards Authority confirmed today.

Students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York will receive free tuition after a US$1 billion (A$1.5 billion) donation from a former faculty member.

A report found significant change was needed in order to support the future economy.

The district filed a lawsuit arguing his long hair, which he wears in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates its policy because it would fall below his shirt collar, eyebrows or earlobes when let down.

The cohort was involved in more than 1200 safety incidents in the past 12 months with 52 of those considered close calls, new data has revealed.

A hundred new pre-schools are due to open by 2027.

Davidson High School in Frenchs Forest, Sydney, is cramped and crumbling.

The Sydney school will have an additional campus to facilitate the expansion, which was labelled a "game changer".

Calculating calories, body mass index, measurements or recording food intake will be avoided.

Until just a couple of years ago, where Googong Public School now resides, was a rolling plain of cow pasture.

The disgruntled group of about 20 protesters stomped outside the private school campus in Stanmore with picket signs on Wednesday morning, as students made their way through the front gate.

Kasey Leadbetter was sleeping in her bed when she was bitten by an eastern brown snake.

An extensive audit has found the university underpaid over 1000 staff millions of dollars over seven years.

In one capital city, a public education for one child will set their parents back a six-figure sum.

Students enrolled in a healthcare degree in NSW can from today apply for up to $12,000 in study subsidies over three years.

The law mandates that love of the country be incorporated into work and study for everyone.

Free kindergarten for all children starts today with $150 sports vouchers to open just weeks later.

Some survivors sheltered on ledges of the building during the massacre.

Parents have been left gobsmacked by one local council policy meaning they can't give their children's kindergarten teacher a Christmas present.

The results, which are available online from 7am, reveal that 39 students achieved the highest possible rank of 99.95.

A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist.

Australia has overtaken some rivals - but that might be down to others' failures more than our own successes.