Campus WA
The youngest WA students tackling the ATAR revealed
A select group of West Australian students are challenging themselves by taking on the content included in ATAR courses before they reach year 12.
- by Holly Thompson
Latest
Studying in the locker room: How Henry balanced his HSC with professional sport
Among the 20,000 students cramming for the HSC Business Studies exam, 17-year-old Henry Lau had his notes out in the Sydney Kings locker room.
- by Daniel Lo Surdo
‘Just relieved it’s all over’: Summer starts for final HSC students
The biggest cohort of students in the state’s history, 71,619 pupils, can now say goodbye to school textbooks, teachers and HSC exam stress.
- by Christopher Harris
‘Profoundly unfair’: Coalition attacks Labor’s HECS debt cut plan
Australia will go to the polls with Labor proposing to slash student debts by 20 per cent and the Coalition lashing it as a burden on the rest of the country.
- by Olivia Ireland
The way some Melbourne University students are taught has changed. Here’s why
Neurodivergent students and staff at the University of Melbourne previously “struggled in silence”. That’s changing, thanks to these three researchers.
- by Bridie Smith
Exclusive
International students
University of Sydney attacks ‘misleading’ figures as hundreds of sector jobs go
The university has accused the government of providing misleading figures about its foreign student cohort.
- by Daniella White
Opinion
HECS
Albanese’s HECS relief won’t fix the core problem – the fees system is broken
Student debt has reached about $81 billion. The government receives far more in student repayments than it does from the gas industry through the petroleum resource rent tax.
- by George Williams
Graduates to get early career reprieve from crippling student debts
The salary threshold at which student loans must be repaid will rise more than $10,000 a year under a federal Labor policy shift that will make the average HELP debt-holder $680 a year better off.
- by James Massola
The big business of university philanthropy: UNSW lands largest ever donation
Big universities are increasingly relying on philanthropy to fund major projects.
- by Daniella White
Exclusive
HECS
Radical plan to slash student debts by tens of thousands of dollars
University debts could be slashed by up to 20 per cent under an Albanese government plan targeted at young voters.
- by Paul Sakkal
‘Actually relevant to life’: The HSC subject popular with 20,000 students
The business studies exam is second only to the English advanced course and has overtaken biology in terms of popularity. Can you pass our quiz?
- by Christopher Harris
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