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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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More WA families are opting to home-school their kids. Here’s why
Almost 6500 students are registered for home-schooling in WA … and sometimes, home means a caravan. Here are some of the reasons parents are making the switch.
- by Holly Thompson
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Why most Victorian teachers want to quit the profession
A statewide survey found just three-in-10 educators envisage staying in the public school system until retirement, with 40 per cent already eyeing the exit.
- by Noel Towell and Angus Delaney
School principals say they feel more like ‘grant appliers’ than educators in fight for funding
Public school principals have told researchers they feel more like fundraisers than educators as they fight in competitive tendering processes for government money.
- by Noel Towell
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
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A co-ed rebellion by Newington old boys is out of step and now over
A group aiming to stop girls being enrolled at Newington College has suffered a massive rejection and failed to win a seat on the alumni board.
- The Herald's View
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‘Concerns have been raised’: $40m contract to upgrade schools axed, referred to the ICAC
More than 30 new and upgraded school projects and 100 new public preschools are at risk after the NSW government terminated the contract.
- by Chris O'Keefe
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City life
‘Created a movement’: Old-school idea helps avoid car drop-off lines
Meet the kids who wake up early before their parents, get dressed and make themselves breakfast because they’re excited to travel to school. The secret? It’s free and totally joyful.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Opinion
Primary school
A great leap forward for school children (as long as we don’t forget their teachers)
The overhaul of the NSW primary school syllabus should benefit 800,000 students, but we must teach their teachers how to implement it.
- by Jordana Hunter and Nick Parkinson
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Education
The Victorian schools being sued over historical child sex abuse claims
A convicted murderer says being sexually abused as a schoolboy led him to a life of crime, as a wave of historical sex abuse claims hits hundreds of Victorian schools.
- by Caroline Schelle and Noel Towell
WA parents are flocking to get tutors for their kids. Why?
There’s something all these parents got a chance to witness firsthand in recent years, one industry veteran says.
- by Holly Thompson