Graduates to get early career reprieve from crippling student debts

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.

  • byJames Massola

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The big business of university philanthropy:UNSW lands largest ever donation

The big business of university philanthropy:UNSW lands largest ever donation

Big universities are increasingly relying on philanthropy to fund major projects.

  • byDaniella White
Radical plan to slash student debts by tens of thousands of dollars
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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.

  • byPaul Sakkal
‘Actually relevant to life’:The HSC subject popular with 20,000 students

‘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?

  • byChristopher Harris
‘Ties are cut like an umbilical cord’:What I wish I’d known before my year 12 exams
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‘Ties are cut like an umbilical cord’:What I wish I’d known before my year 12 exams

I grew up hearing two theories about exam results – they mean nothing and they mean everything. One year on,I’m not sure either is right.

  • byDaniel Cash
Why Australia’s maths crisis is at a tipping point and how we can fix it
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Why Australia’s maths crisis is at a tipping point and how we can fix it

HSC advanced maths,physics and chemistry enrolments have fallen,but experts say there are ways to reverse the decline.

  • byLucy Carroll
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This HSC subject unfairly advantages elite school students,critics say

This HSC subject unfairly advantages elite school students,critics say

A leading lecturer in music education is concerned students are punished for studying certain types of music,but scaling experts say the system is fair.

  • byChristopher Harris
Steely Dan and Taxi Driver:Meet the 21-year-olds obsessed with the 1970s

Steely Dan and Taxi Driver:Meet the 21-year-olds obsessed with the 1970s

Jose Da Costa and Shankari Kathirgamalingam – both born in 2003 – have created the University of Sydney’s inaugural 1970s club.

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo
A Nazi cartoon featured in this year’s HSC exam. Some private school students had seen it before

A Nazi cartoon featured in this year’s HSC exam. Some private school students had seen it before

A cartoon that was used in trial exams purchased by numerous private schools reappeared in the HSC.

  • byChristopher Harris
More than 3500 students faced the toughest HSC maths question. Bowen solved it

More than 3500 students faced the toughest HSC maths question. Bowen solved it

Students sat the gruelling three-hour HSC maths extension 2 paper on Monday,with students quizzed on mechanics and complex numbers.

  • byLucy Carroll
HSC maths exam asks for more words and fewer numbers. Can you pass the test?

HSC maths exam asks for more words and fewer numbers. Can you pass the test?

It is the second year in a row that mathematics students have been told to eschew calculations in their exam for some questions and answer in sentences instead.

  • byChristopher Harris