
Emily Kowal
Journalist at The Daily Telegraph
Education reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald @smh Got a story? 💌 [email protected]
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smh.com.au | Emily Kowal
By Emily Kowal June 21, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In public school classrooms across NSW, students turn to an AI chatbot. Nearby, their teacher is doing the same – using a bot to plan a lesson, mark assignments and write reports. This is EduChat, the Education Department’s in-house generative AI tool, now used in every public school in the state.
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smh.com.au | Emily Kowal
By Emily Kowal June 21, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The state government is ramping up efforts to keep gifted children in public comprehensive schools via a $100 million budget spend designed to make parents consider their local high school.
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smh.com.au | Nicole Precel |Emily Kowal
By Nicole Precel and Emily Kowal June 19, 2025 — 9.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian universities have slipped in global rankings after a “turbulent year”, with experts calling it a wake-up call as growing competition in the region and the politicisation of international students pose a threat to progress.
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smh.com.au | Emily Kowal
By Emily Kowal June 15, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wednesday is a special day at Whiddon Easton Park Nursing Home. It’s the day that children’s giggles cut through the air, sticky fingers proudly show off artworks and stories are shared. It’s the day the schoolkids come.
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smh.com.au | Amilia Rosa |Emily Kowal
By Amilia Rosa and Emily Kowal June 14, 2025 — 5.32pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An Australian man in Bali has been arrested for alleged cocaine possession, with video footage of him claiming the substance is Panadol widely shared on social media. Lismore man Nelson Philip James was detained by Indonesian police on Thursday after he was allegedly found with cocaine during a traffic stop at Badung.
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Spotted at Albert Park - another F1 spelling mistake 🤣 #f1 #Melbourne #f1melbourne https://t.co/ecmBfp6eiV

RT @LindaSilmalis: A must-read by @KowalEmily after her trip to Broken Hill: We’ve been powerless for 10 days. Does anyone care? #nswpol ht…

EXCLUSIVE: Almost 100 brumbies have been shot from the air in the Blue Mountains as part of a mass culling program by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS). It's the first aerial horse shooting in the area since 2002. https://t.co/OhENnbdpfF