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NSW Deputy Premier Prue Car announces she has cancer.

Deputy Premier Prue Car reveals cancer diagnosis

Prue Car said she will take leave for immediate treatment as she faces her second cancer diagnosis in three years.

  • Josefine Ganko

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Stevie, 6, has since been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and will require a transplant in the coming years.

Frankie thought her daughter was safe at daycare. Her child’s life changed forever

The Sydney daycare centre that Stevie attended has been hit with a swath of serious complaints and had its licence suspended for three months.

  • Amber Schultz
School funding.

We learnt how much funding NSW schools receive: What does yours get?

Top selective schools James Ruse and North Sydney Boys benefited from parent contributions upwards of $2000 per student. Search our table to see how your school fares.

  • Christopher Harris
Students protesting at Granville Boys High School on Wednesday.

Students protest at Sydney school after Muslim staffer told to work from home

Granville Boys High student support officer Sheikh Wesam Charkawi was ordered to remove social media posts where he downplayed antisemitic comments made by two Sydney nurses.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
Rebecca King and her daughter daughter Maddy.

Girls lead exodus as parents choose private and Catholic schools

Thousands more NSW parents are choosing Catholic and private schools for their children amid an exodus from public education.

  • Christopher Harris and Craig Butt
Many primary school principals have reported difficulty filling teaching jobs.

Schools to start late, cancel classes as thousands of teachers stop work

Parents have been told there will be minimal supervision at the state’s schools on Monday.

  • Lucy Carroll
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Thousands of offers have been made to students for study at Western Sydney University, University of Wollongong. Thousands of students at Macquarie University secured an offer via early entry last year.

Critics say this post-HSC pathway favours rich students. Universities don’t agree

One of Sydney’s major universities only admitted 965 students last year based on their ATAR alone, as the number of early entry offers continues to increase.

  • Christopher Harris
NSW Education Minister Prue Car refuses to sign a new funding deal with the federal government.

Double or nothing: Why NSW rejected billions for public school children

The funding stand-off comes as total number of permanent and temporary teachers has gone backwards in NSW.

  • Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll
Principals have been told to cut their budgets by $148 million in addition to the Department taking back the money.

NSW schools had money taken from them. Now we know how much

Under funding changes announced in 2021, principals were told they needed to spend any accumulated money. How much was taken can now be revealed.

  • Christopher Harris
Colleges face collapse under planned international student caps.

NSW teacher training rules overhauled as accreditation process scrapped

The shake-up has been welcomed by the teachers’ union, but slammed by critics who warn it will erode quality assurance and vital oversight of thousands of teaching courses.

  • Lucy Carroll

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