A private tutoring industry exists for the purpose of helping individual student to ace NAPLAN, despite the test results being used to monitor the overall schools’ academic performance.

Keeping an assembly of primary school-aged children quiet for half-an-hour can be a struggle, as most teachers would know.

But Sydney’s Trinity Grammar school managed to pull it off for a full day with 800 of its students aged 5 to 12. This was done raise awareness, and funds, for children in Cambodia who have speech impediments.

The money raised, in this case $13,000, goes to charity OIC Cambodia, which aims to provide speech therapy for Cambodian children.

Construction has begun on Melbourne’s first high rise school, continuing an Australian trend that began in Sydney, of schools’ gracing city skylines.

Research from South Australia’s universities has found that 51 per cent of school leaver students struggle to make decision on what to study at university.

It’s a common move for Year 12 students to take easier mathematics courses in order to maximise their ATAR.

Now an expert from the University of Sydney warns this practice could become commonplace in English thanks to the reforms of the New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus.

Isuru Wanasinghe, the founder of Life is Yellow, says he directs his ideas at education because “the way that we deliver education could be so much better and it's so far behind.”

Riley Batchelor, EduGrowth chief executive, says start-ups could enhance education, and make a lot of money while they’re at it.

Technology can be good for teachers, if they know how to use it. Otherwise it’s a perennial frustration for the teacher, and an impediment to learning for the student.

That’s why Michelle Michael, acting principal of Gymea Bay Public School in Sydney’s south, got the teachers at her school early access to Apple Teacher, a learning module app that educates teachers on how to use Apple’s products. Apple Teacher was released in Australia today.

The New South Wales Higher School Certificate Syllabus has been reformed for the first time in 20 years, with a focus on giving students the skills they need to thrive after they leave school.

Mathspace, an Australian education technology start-up, is has extended its reach into the schools of Hong Kong, continuing a period of rapid expansion for the company.