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The University of Sydney was the only one of 32 universities to have their request for extra international students knocked back.

Sydney Uni singled out to get no extra international students next year

The sandstone university was the only institution to be knocked back in its bid to host a share of 17,500 extra foreign student places.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Federal Education Minister Jason Clare.

Revealed: The date HECS debts will be slashed by 20 per cent

The federal government has announced when the ATO will begin processing legislated cuts to student debt.

  • Nick Newling
Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

University cannot serve this generation as it did mine – and I’m in grief

Australia’s forlorn tertiary education system needs a massive overhaul, as do the people running it.

  • Jenna Price
Genevieve Bell and Julie Bishop.

Bishop stares down critics as embattled ANU vice chancellor resigns

The university’s chancellor, Julie Bishop, announced the move in a short statement posted to the institution’s website on Thursday.

  • Christopher Harris, Natassia Chrysanthos and Nick Newling
Taliah Blakely left high school in year 9.

Taliah is one of thousands who dropped out of high school. A major reform hopes to change this

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare wants to merge four teaching bureaucracies into one super-agency. Will it help more students to finish year 12?

  • Emily Kowal and Lucy Carroll
Schools can use the funding to install CCTV cameras.

CCTV cameras in childcare centres must not become paedophile ‘honeypot’: Clare

Workers’ mobile phones will be banned as part of a raft of new measures aimed at protecting infants and toddlers.

  • Brittany Busch and Kayla Olaya
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Attorney-General Michelle Rowland.

Rowland backtracks on year-long wait for reform after putting 30 centres on notice

The centres have been hit with notices from the federal government alleging they have failed to meet national standards for seven years or more.

  • Brittany Busch and Jessica McSweeney
Education Minister Jason Clare said the bill to tackle abuse in childcare centres would not leave parents stranded if a location closed.

Failing childcare centres will get grace period before funding is pulled

Child safety advocates say the bill introduced to parliament on Wednesday will not fix the systemic problems facing the sector.

  • Nick Newling and Nicole Precel
Former minister Ed Husic has criticised the envoy’s report, becoming the first Labor MP to break ranks on the issue.

‘Heavy-handed’: Former minister breaks ranks on antisemitism report

Labor MP Ed Husic said he was uncomfortable with Jillian Segal’s criticism of public broadcasters and her call to strip funding from institutions that fail to combat antisemitism.

  • Nick Newling and Matthew Knott
Illustration: Monique Westermann

Childcare horrors are shocking, but they’re no surprise to me

I’ve been investigating the childcare industry for almost a year. Now, Australia’s children deserve no less than a royal commission or independent inquiry.

  • Adele Ferguson

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