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Eilidh Sproul-Mellis is the education reporter at The Daily Telegraph, covering all stages from early learning and child development to tertiary education and young people in the workforce. She holds a special interest in cyber issues and was previously a digital producer at the masthead.

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Staff and students rallied on Tuesday against the proposed job cuts outside the WSU Chancellery. Picture: Instagram

Mass uni job cuts revealed in all-staff email

Thousands of staff face a tense four-month wait to find out if their necks are on the chopping block amid sweeping job cuts at Western Sydney University.

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‘No excuse’: True cost of uni debt on students revealed

Australians paying off their university degrees are being warned they’re now at risk of being stung with a tax bill, as young people call for “more meaningful” measures to ease the cost of tertiary education.

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Graph reveals startling maths teacher shortage

Two in five Australian students are learning maths from teachers without formal qualifications in the subject. Here’s what our universities are doing to fix the out-of-field teaching emergency.

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5/2/25: CEO of Business NSW, Daniel Hunter, talking about stress and wellbeing in the workplace. Hunter will discuss his own challenges with stress and health (he has triplets) and the difficulties of juggling work, life and wellbeing and more broadly about the personal and economic impact of poor levels of wellbeing in corporate Australia. John Feder/The Australian.

Dire warning: ‘this will send some businesses broke’

NSW’s largest business advocacy body has claimed tens of thousands of family businesses will go to the wall without bipartisan support for workers’ compensation reforms.

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‘Re-establishing normality’: Life in Taree in the days after disaster

In the days after thousands of homes were inundated up and down the Mid North Coast, ex-soldiers are hitting the ground to help muck out. More than 1200 homes are uninhabitable.

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Vile slurs targeting Sydney teens exposed

Dozens of bullying social media accounts targeting students from private and public schools have been exposed, highlighting the vile abuse students face.

Education

TUMBARUMBA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 24: Adrian Brayne handles wine stock in the processing building at Obsession Wines on November 24, 2020 in Tumbarumba, Australia. Second-generation winemaker and owner of boutique wine label 'Obsession Wines', Adrian Brayne lost his home, equipment and 10 hectares of vineyards (planted in the 1990s) in what has become known as the Black Summer Bushfires. He was on track for a promising harvest in February of chardonnay, pinot gris, pinot noir and viognier. Nestled in the picturesque countryside of Tumbarumba, a historic timber town on the western edge of the Snowy Mountains, the community faced two large fire fronts that joined together to create a mega-fire in January this year. Adrian remained on the property to fight and subsequently saved his cellar door and processing building. COVID-19 has since compounded the loss with its dramatic impact on the dining, events and tourism industry, nine months on Adrian is facing an estimated 90% financial loss and is living in a mobile van. However, despite the hardships of the past year, Adrian remains positive about the future and continues to clear bushfire affected trees on his land with preparations in place to replant, a process that will take five years to produce grapes. In the short term, he will look to source from local growers and continue to process wine for his label and others, his remaining stock that escaped damage and available online is helping to keep the business moving along with a percentage of proceeds going back to his local community. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Why farmers and winemakers are trying their hands at teaching

The number of people retraining or upskilling as teachers is creeping back up to pre-Covid levels as universities and governments throw millions of dollars at postgraduate schemes.

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Professor Donna Cross in a promotional video for a Catholic Schools NSW event. Picture: X

NSW’s school behaviour tsar, bullying surveys scrapped

NSW’s inaugural ‘Chief Behaviour Advisor’, tasked with bullying prevention in public, Catholic and independent schools, will no longer act in the role.

Education

Suzanne (Sue) Floro is currently the head of Knox Grammar's Preparatory School. Picture: Supplied

Elite Sydney girls’ school reveals pick for new headmistress

Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney’s upper north shore has poached its new head from a neighbouring all-boys school Knox Grammar, as its current principal ships off to Bellevue Hill.

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A united approach to keeping students safe

NSW school leaders have taken another step forward to tackle the devastating scourge of bullying in schools. It comes after the death of Sydney schoolgirl Charlotte O’Brien and other children.

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