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The hardest university degrees to get into, and the ones where ATARs are falling
Top HSC students share their university choices – including one for whom it’s just a back-up until he can get into an American institution.
HSC students receive university offers: Search our database for cut-off scores
Use our interactive database to search for university and college courses throughout Australia in 2025 and their minimum entry requirements.
- by Craig Butt, Christopher Harris and Cindy Yin
Planning on moving to Sydney to do your studies?
Few places in the world offer a student lifestyle to match that of Australia’s premier city.
- by Caroline Zielinski
North Sydney Boys goes back-to-back atop the HSC rankings
- by Lucy Carroll, Nigel Gladstone, Christopher Harris, Nick Newling and Anthony Segaert
Post-Graduate Study
Want to future-proof your career? Here are some courses to consider
- by Alexandra Cain
Leaders of the pack: the practical pathway to a better job
- by Peter Lenaghan
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Education
‘This will split our suburb in two’: Parents’ anger over school catchment changes
Inner Sydney High has its first year 12 cohort doing the HSC this year – and it is already feeling the popularity pinch.
- by Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
This Sydney billionaire wants to hire more women. He’s spending $100m to make it happen
The gift from tech entrepreneur Robin Khuda is the single biggest philanthropic donation made in NSW.
- by Christopher Harris
$700 a week to share an apartment: Sydney’s student housing crisis laid bare
Students such as Neeve Nagle are spending more than half their income on rent as the cost of university accommodation skyrockets.
- by Nicholas Osiowy
Opinion
Teaching
I love my children, but sheesh it’s time they went to school. These holidays have gone on forever
If parenthood is about anything, it’s about marking milestones. First steps, first words, first teeth. The first day of school can’t come quickly enough.
- by Michael Ruffles
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Private schools
‘Demand is there’: Sydney private high school opens doors to years 5 and 6
Rosebank College will expand to take primary years, while an all-boys north shore private secondary school says opening primary grades is under “ongoing consideration”.
- by Lucy Carroll
The schools that have asked parents to pay for paper, tissues and markers
Principals have been told not to ask parents to fund communal supplies, but some are asking for hand soap, tissues, whiteboard markers and Play-Doh.
- by Christopher Harris
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/australia-higher-education