Lucy Carroll

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. The former head of the NSW Education Department’s school building unit hired a strategic adviser on a pay rate of $1920 a day without any contract or formal agreement in place, the anti-corruption watchdog has heard.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Emily Kowal |Nigel Gladstone |Lucy Carroll

By Emily Kowal, Nigel Gladstone and Lucy Carroll May 25, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cost of living, climate change and cybersecurity might be major challenges of our time, but the HSC courses addressing them are the ones mostly likely to be dropped when students start year 12.

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

By Lucy Carroll and Michael McGowan May 19, 2025 — 6.53pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A senior education official raised concerns about unsustainable budgets amid an “explosion” of contractors within the NSW Education Department’s school building unit soon after it was set up, an anti-corruption probe has heard.

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

By Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone May 18, 2025 — 7.15pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of Sydney’s highest-performing north shore public schools has topped 2000 students for the first time, breaching its enrolment cap less than two years after undergoing a multi-million dollar campus overhaul.

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Lucy Carroll |Nigel Gladstone

In the Northern Beaches, eastern suburbs, Inner West and north shore, about 15,000 fewer students attend public schools compared with five years ago. However, in the city’s booming north and south-west outskirts new schools built a few years ago are full or overcrowded. In the north-west, which recorded the fastest student population growth last year, Riverbank Public is 1000 students over its cap.