Education

After a year of agitation, conservatives had a big win on the Safe Schools anti-bullying program – a curtain-raiser to their fight on equal marriage.

As incoming vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, Nobel prize winner Brian Schmidt has a clear vision of how to take Australian achievements into the stratosphere.

For students of the elite Geelong Grammar School, sexual abuse survived within a subculture of hazing born in the ‘Great Public Schools’ of England.

Covert negotiations, whispered announcements and an awkward about-face reveal a political agenda behind reaching consensus.

It’s a high-stakes gamble for industry groups to support unpopular government policy if the senate objects, as the experience of university chiefs shows.

He calls himself a ‘fixer’ but Christopher Pyne’s achievements heading the Coalition’s education portfolio have done nothing to support this school of thought.

How one man’s blindness allowed a generation of sexual abuse at Sydney’s Knox Grammar.

A remote NT community where Aboriginal children still aren’t going to school highlights the failure to "close the gap”.

The education minister’s bullishness in defeat of his university reforms epitomises the government’s struggles in the senate.

The death of a political icon made Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s push for deregulation of university fees even harder to sell.