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November

Can you pass HSC Economics?

Can you answer the hardest HSC economics questions? Have a go

We found 10 questions that most economics students couldn’t get right. Put yourself to the test with our interactive quiz.

  • Lucy Dean, Daniel Reti and Lucy King

August

A 50pc improvement: Unis turn the tide on disadvantage

The winner of the community engagement category is reversing the fortunes of disadvantaged children in a partnership that has lifted HSC results.

  • Agnes King

March

Universities have been using early offers to shore up enrolments but the practice has undermined school achievement.

Crackdown on ultra-early uni offers in Year 12 to boost enrolments

Universities have been told they have to rein in the practice of making early offers of a guaranteed place to Year 12 students.

  • Julie Hare

September 2023

Teachers suspect AI is often being used for school assignments.

Teachers are helpless to stop AI cheating

At least half of all school teachers have had to mark assignments they were certain had been written by ChatGPT, a government inquiry hears.

  • John Davidson

November 2022

Early offers to university are undermining the integrity of final year exams, experts say.

Why early university offers may be bad for students

Early offers to study at university made before final year 12 exams have been sat are distorting the educational experience, promoting underachievement and adding to discipline issues, experts say.

  • Julie Hare
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February 2022

Ellia Wise and Minette Kirkegaard both accepted early offers to study at Wollongong University.

Year 12 students take foot off pedal as unis bypass ATAR scores

Universities are making early offers to students based on year 11 performance in a bid to claw back revenues lost from falling international student numbers.

  • Julie Hare
There is often insufficient information about what tertiary study in particular disciplines might look like.

Lack of information strangles students’ career choices

We need to rethink how we prepare young people for working life and maybe we should start by asking them.

  • Cathy Waite and Lucas Walsh

October 2021

Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith is the Women in STEM ambassador.

HSC enrolments show why STEM pipeline is hard to build

An extra 6 per cent of women in the workforce could add up to $25 billion to Australia’s GDP.

  • Lisa Harvey-Smith

August 2021

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says all schools will be back on October 25.

NSW teachers put on notice: no jab, no work

NSW’s plan for the return to face-to-face teaching will see teachers who are not fully vaccinated stood down.

  • Julie Hare and Aaron Patrick
A total of 6500 students from eight hot spots were vaccinated in two days at Homebush.

NSW students flock for jabs, but teacher vaccinations unknown

A total of 6500 school students were vaccinated in two days but the NSW Education Department has no idea how many teachers have had jabs.

  • Julie Hare

July 2021

The HSC will go ahead, says Sarah Mitchell.

Homebush stadium to host mass jabs for year 12 students

Homebush’s former Olympic stadium will become jab central when 20,000 year 12 students get vaccinated in early August.

  • Julie Hare
A return to face-to-face teaching is critical for HSC students, says Gladys Berejiklian.

Year 12 students in Sydney hotspots to get jabs ahead of the bush

Pfizer vaccines will be redirected from other parts of the state to year 12 students in eight hotspots so they can return to face-to-face teaching.

  • Julie Hare
Learner profiles could help students engage with further education and employment.

Learner profiles prove that ATAR is not everything

With one if five students not completing school, work is underway to create alternatives to the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank.

  • Julie Hare

June 2021

Geelong Grammar captains Michaela Sorrenti and George Chomley

How schools are adapting to new demands from parents

Parents are taking a greater interest in what the children are being taught and their findings influence how they choose schools.

  • Agnes King

May 2021

Belay Capital has bought a majority stake in edtech Maths Pathway.

Do the math: Private equity comes for edtech Maths Pathway

Mid-market private equity firm Belay Capital has been studying up on a new investment. 

  • Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
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April 2021

Education needs to be evidence-informed

Innovation is not an excuse to disregard everything we know about effective teaching and learning.

  • Jennifer Buckingham

November 2020

With school behind her, Charlotte Blomfield says the world is opening up.

Postcard from a school leaver

Thanks for the sympathy but we've learnt to adapt and we're doing just fine.

  • Charlotte Blomfield

Class of 2020: 'The world is our oyster, just not right now'

As final year exams finish, Australia's more than 180,000 school leavers are heading out into an uncertain world.

  • Robert Bolton

May 2020

Year 12 student Marcus Lee with his father Steven. The teenager is glad to be back in the classroom.

How will the pandemic affect Year 12 students?

Losing weeks of face-to-face teaching has raised questions about how ready the class of 2020 will be for their final exams.

  • Natasha Boddy

April 2020

No repeating, no Year 13 but questions linger about final-year exams

The education minister said students will be able to get ATARS so they can go to uni, college or work. It's up to the states to work out what to do with final year exams.

  • Robert Bolton

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