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UP Education is a major recruiter of international students in Australia.

PEP weighs options for $100m-a-year tertiary education business UP

Home-grown buyout firm Pacific Equity Partners’ dealmakers are preparing to grade request-for-proposal submissions from investment bankers for UP Education.

An internal investigation has uncovered “completely unacceptable” behaviour at Ballarat Grammar.

Ballarat private school expels students over ‘hazing’

Ballarat Grammar principal Adam Heath said an internal investigation confirmed that older boarders had harmed younger boys in “completely unacceptable” behaviour.

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, alumnus of SHAGs.

Gina Rinehart jolts parents at ‘woke’ St Hilda’s

The country’s richest person continues to inspire at her Perth alma mater.

To close the skills gap universities are developing specialised training programs that align closely with industry requirements.

Unis and industry unite to close critical tech skills gap

Industries across Australia are facing an urgent need for specialised workforce training as rapid technological advancements reshape the job market.

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Bentleigh West was ahead of the curve when it introduced explicit instruction a decade ago, says principal Sarah Asome.

This school may have the answer to improving kids’ maths

Teachers can now sign up for a new program from La Trobe University to teach them how to teach the subject – and not before time.

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Jasmine Fardouly is a senior lecturer in psychology at University of Sydney.

Researchers drive leading innovations in science

Meet some of the women whose original thinking has put them at the global forefront in their fields.

The master of advanced nursing at UTS Online offers specialisations in acute care, critical care, and chronic and complex care.

Nurses at the forefront of healthcare’s digital revolution

Australia’s healthcare sector is in a period of transformation as it experiences technological disruption, the pressures of an ageing population and ongoing post-COVID-19 recovery.

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Janelle Craig, course director at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

Strong leadership skills vital to meet healthcare challenges

Australia’s health and social care system is under mounting pressure, driven by an ageing population and rising demand for services.

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Parents and former Newington College students protest outside the Stanmore campus last year.

Sayers Group the latest beneficiary in Newington co-ed tussle

The Sydney boys school may be winning its battle to admit girls by 2026, but it’s clocked up some expenses doing so.

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Amy Feng studied for her A levels at PLC Sydney last year and is now studying maths and philosophy at Oxford University.

Local students taking A-level fast-track to Oxford

A private school in Sydney is offering British A-levels as an alternative to the HSC.

Domestic violence rife among students

A new report shows domestic violence is widespread among women in their late teens and early twenties.

Creative thinking at Adelaide University empowered Lauren Whiting to launch Lift Cancer Care Services.

Four things to know before starting your own business

From how to work with AI to addressing failure, these four founders discovered something that ultimately changed the course of their business.

Catherine Livingstone, chancellor of UTS, which opened the floodgates to international students 20 years ago.

Thank you, Catherine Livingstone, for telling the truth about Oz unis

The UTS chancellor should also call for a commission to set up an Australian university ranking system focused on local student satisfaction and employment outcomes.

Roughly a third of students across all subjects and year levels are failing to meet NAPLAN proficiency.

How not to waste Gonski school funding

Additional federal money may unfortunately extend and expand inefficient and ineffective practices rather than lift the quality of teaching.

Graduates can still find employer programs straight out of university, but it’s becoming tougher as the employment market retreats from boom time to just good times.

The graduate employment boom is losing steam

Graduates can still find employer programs straight out of university, but it’s becoming tougher as the employment market retreats from boom time to just good times.

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George Williams, vice chancellor of Western Sydney Uni.

This vice chancellor stood on his head for students, literally

New boss of Western Sydney University, George Williams, is using his legal mind, and the odd stunt, to advocate for the battered tertiary education sector.

The University of Sydney.

Antisemitism at uni starts with identity politics in the humanities

The sad fact is that a culture of hatred does not arise without an ideology.

Brook Turner on The Fin podcast

Inside the fight to keep girls out of boys’ schools

This week on The Fin podcast, AFR Magazine contributor Brook Turner on why Sydney has become the epicentre of this battle and whether there is still a place in Australia for single-sex schools.

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said there was a serious reading gap between children from wealthy and poor families.

No, minister – the reading wars are not over

Jason Clare has embraced evidence-based reading instruction, but the Australian school curriculum is holding our education system back.

Anthony Justice at his home in Mosman.  As well as the qualification, he gained an international network of advisers from his French MBA.

My employer refused to pay for my MBA – so I quit

When Anthony Justice asked BP to pay for his one-year, full-time MBA in France, the company refused. A year later, it promoted him and upped his salary.

Student Jasmine O’Brien.

$80,000 debt is only part of cost crisis hitting students hard

Jasmine O’Brien is in the second of a five-year degree, holds down two jobs and worries about what her student debt will be when she finally graduates.

Students Olivia Adam, Caeli Yole, and Thimuthu Dassanayake at Monash University’s Clayton Campus.

How students are doubling up to get ahead in the jobs race

Vice chancellor Sharon Pickering says half the undergraduates at Monash University are doing double degrees to improve their job prospects, despite the extra time and cost involved.

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