Rebecca Barrett

A national numeracy program for three and five-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds dramatically improves their maths skills before they start school, an evaluation of the program finds.

A Gallup poll surveyed 7,300 students across the country and found thousands are not hopeful for the future and are not confident of getting a good job.

A group of university students protesting outside a Sydney building where Education Minister Christopher Pyne delivered a speech were pepper-sprayed by police.

Thousands of TAFE students with disabilities are "stunned" and confused after being sent letters setting out course fee costs when they thought they were exempt.

Educators argue for creativity to be taken as seriously as literacy and numeracy in the national school curriculum.

Many of the 75,000 NSW students receiving their Higher School Certificate results on Wednesday are the first in their family to complete high school.

A meeting of education ministers in Canberra has agreed to refer recommendations from the national curriculum review to the body that oversees the curriculum.

HSC markers in New South Wales have finished marking exams ahead of schedule but year 12 students still have a three-week wait to get their results.

Parents are concerned a plan for Sydney's Catholic schools to dump specialist aides for children with hearing and vision impairments in favour of regular teachers will leave students worse off.

Lawyers for suspended Sydney University professor Barry Spurr have told the Federal Court he is collateral damage in a political attack on the Federal Government by the New Matilda website over the national curriculum review.

A leading charity has warned that increasing numbers of children are set to fail at school unless more is done to prepare them in the years before they reach school age.