Lucy Carroll

Sydney

Education Editor at Sydney Morning Herald

Education editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. [email protected]

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Articles

Two Sydney institutions flag new multimillion-dollar cuts

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hundreds of jobs are expected to be slashed at some of Sydney’s biggest universities as the institutions embark on radical cost-cutting measures amid major budget shortfalls. Western Sydney University is planning to cut up to 400 jobs in a bid to plug an almost $80 million budget black hole as it faces weaker enrolment demand.
How these schools are teaching their way out of a national maths crisis

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia has been too slow to rule out “faddish but unproven” maths teaching methods in schools despite persistent underperformance and a third of students failing to meet basic maths standards, a new report says.
How these schools are teaching their way out of a national maths crisis

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Lucy Carroll

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Inside this Sydney private school’s $60 million castle

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eastern suburbs private school Scots College will this week unveil the $60 million faux baronial castle that will serve as its new student centre – more than seven years after the school lodged state significant plans for the building upgrade.
‘We support parent choice’: Uproar over NSW schools boss push to reconsider private schools

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Christopher Harris

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‘We support parent choice’: Uproar over NSW schools boss push to reconsider private schools

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Christopher Harris

By Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris April 8, 2025 — 12.40pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NSW Premier Chris Minns says his government “fully supports” parental choice in the education system after the head of the state’s 2200 public schools questioned whether private schools should exist.
‘We support parent choice’: Uproar over NSW schools chief’s push to reconsider private schools

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Christopher Harris

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NSW Education Department boss questions existence of private schools

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Christopher Harris |Lucy Carroll

By Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll April 7, 2025 — 11.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The head of the state’s 2200 public schools has slighted his counterparts in the private sector by suggesting the education system could be better off without Catholic and independent schools.
NSW Education Department boss questions existence of private schools

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Christopher Harris |Lucy Carroll

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The three rules that rocketed this Sydney school up the HSC rankings

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lucy Carroll

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sixteen years ago, when Paul Sheather arrived as principal of Balgowlah Boys High, the school was struggling to push enrolments above 380 students. “The year I started, the local paper published a league table of HSC results of all northern beaches schools. We were last on the list,” he recalls. “We knew we were down.