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Rebecca Borg is a multi-award winning education reporter for the Herald Sun. In 2025, she was named Young Journalist of the Year in both the Melbourne Press Club Quills and News Corp News Awards. Rebecca’s impressive resume includes working as a cadet journalist in Sydney with the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph and The Australian in 2022, before doing a six-month stint as a Melbourne-based reporter for news.com.au. After a short stint as a digital breaking news reporter for the Herald Sun in 2023, Rebecca moved into her current role where she covers childcare, school and tertiary education stories, as well as education-related research.

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The ‘guilty until innocent’ system jeopardising teachers’ careers

A Department of Education “secret list” is jeopardising innocent teachers’ careers, with false accusations from students and parents leaving educators without work during lengthy investigations.

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Female Student Raising Hand To Ask Question In Classroom

Free learning programs designed to boost Victoria’s brightest students

Thousands of the state’s smartest students will from next year be able to raise their hand for access to free learning opportunities designed to further their potential.

Year 12 student at Mazenod College, Chris, is waiting on his ATAR results. Thursday, November 27. 2025. Picture: David Crosling

VCE 2025 results: Top private and state schools revealed

Two newly opened government schools have stunned the state by topping VCE rankings, overtaking long-dominant selective-entry and elite private schools. Check out the full list here.

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Aquinas College year 12 student Ethan Goktepe (centre) and his mates (L-R) Makayla Maassen, Aiden Carusi, Gage Garner and Gretchen Carter celebrating the end of exams and Year 12 results. Ethan has had profound hearing loss since birth and wears bilateral cochlear implants. Throughout school, he strived for excellence and his commitment has been an inspiration. Picture: Josie Hayden

VCE results 2025: Full student honour roll revealed

Victorian students have defied expectations with their remarkable VCE results, including one teenager who proved hearing loss cannot silence academic excellence. Search the database to see who took top honours at your school.

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Class of 2025 receive their ATAR scores - 4.3

‘So proud of myself’: 42 schooling stars get perfect 99.95 ATARs

VCE results have landed and the class of 2025 has rewritten the academic record books with more perfect study scores than ever before. See how your school performed.

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Monash University agrees to back-pay staff in $20m wage theft case

Monash University will fork out more than $20m to cover the underpayments of more than 10,000 staff it underpaid for more than a decade.

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MELBOURNE, DECEMBER 4, 2025: NAPLAN - St Josephs Primary School, Springvale. L to R Angela, 10, Amy, 11, Aston, 9, Jonathan, 9, Principal Michelle Verna, Margot, 9. Picture: Mark Stewart

Why these private schools are losing their academic edge

Expensive private schools charging $35,000 a year are losing their academic edge, as government schools deliver results rivalling some of the best schools for a fraction of the tuition fee. See if your school made the cut.

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Presbyterian Ladies' College principal Cheryl Penberthy with students Isabelle Le, Christine Lee and Chloe Tam. Picture: Supplied

Gender gap: How single-sex schools performed in NAPLAN

Girls’ schools have claimed half of Victoria’s top 20 private school NAPLAN spots, outperforming boys’ schools in four of five test domains.

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Childcare horror widens: 83 new charges, four more alleged victims

Accused pedophile Joshua Brown has been slapped with 83 more charges, with four new alleged victims emerging from his time spent at Victorian childcare centres.

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Sunshine Harvester Primary School NAPLAN students Tahani, Jaden, Archie and Sean. Picture : Ian Currie

These schools threaten to topple Vic’s elite colleges in NAPLAN results

Victoria’s academic elite face an unexpected shake-up as several schools storm into the top 20 NAPLAN rankings, displacing established performers. SEE ALL THE RESULTS

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