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Sydney’s top-ranked school has an HSC average subject score of 89.4. How does your school fare?
By band sixes or averages, North Sydney Boys is the state’s top school. A new analysis of HSC scores has shaken up the top five.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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Brain scans, high-tech mouthguards: Tackling the impact of school sport concussions
Rugby players at a Melbourne school wear data-collecting mouthguards to help researchers unearth ways to monitor concussion and make detection faster and more objective.
- by Bridie Smith
Eton mandated basic Nokias. These NSW private schools are watching
Mounting evidence suggests excessive smartphone use is associated with depression, anxiety and poor sleep quality and now some schools are taking steps to protect students from digital addiction.
- by Christopher Harris
Bid to keep out girls from Newington College suffers major blow
A breakaway faction has failed in its bid to stop plans by Newington College to admit girls to the historic private school.
- by Lucy Carroll
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State Parliament
Private, public or selective? Where the people ruling NSW went to school
If you want a job on one side of politics, one type of education background appears to pay dividends.
- by Christopher Harris
Prestigious Kew private school adopts online learning to prepare students for university
One of Melbourne’s most prestigious Catholic all-girls schools, Genazzano FCJ, has launched a voluntary hybrid online and on-campus learning program.
- by Bridie Smith
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Roads
As North East Link hides payments to private schools, one reveals its millions
As the cost of the project soars $10 billion over budget, the amount paid to private schools like Trinity Grammar and Carey Baptist Grammar along the route is being kept quiet.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Scots College and the donation from alleged Chinese money launderer
Zhaohua Ma, allegedly part of a $10 billion money laundering syndicate smashed by the AFP last year, donated more than $100,000 to the Bellevue Hill school.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and David Estcourt
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