The education sector should move away from the heavy focus on ATAR and students should instead leave school with a ‘learner profile’ that takes into account a range of their skills, knowledge and experiences. That was one of the key ...

Australia’s oldest university has proved its prestige yet again, being the leading institution in NSW for first-preference applications from students looking to enter undergraduate degrees this year. However, hot on the heels of the University of Sydney was the University of Technology ...

With the recent release of VCE results, parents across Victoria have been eagerly hoping to find out what their children have achieved at school during the past two years. Isn’t it strange, then, that VCE results provide so little insight ...

More than 55 per cent of senior high school students questioned in a recent survey claimed to be aiming for an ATAR of 90 or more. This is despite the fact that more than half the students participating in the ...

A new report is proposing a rethink on how educators approach senior schooling and tertiary education, and calls ­for the ATAR to be replaced with a more comprehensive “learning profile”. The Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) position paper, titled Beyond ATAR: ...

Should a woman wish to study an undergraduate degree in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney, she would see her ATAR score suddenly jump 10 points. The same adjustment would be made to the ...

The latest Grattan Institute Report, Attracting high achievers to teaching, is proposing a $1.6 billion reform package to “double the number of high achievers who choose to become teachers, and increase the average ATAR of teaching graduates to 85, within ...

Another university application data dump, another Go8 domination. The University of Sydney has once again led first and total preliminary preferences among NSW and ACT domestic undergraduate university applicants. Also, per the previous year, UNSW, UTS, WSU, Macquarie and UON followed. USYD slightly increased ...

A senate inquiry has heard that Gonski funding aside, schools aren't doing enough to prepare students for life. Mitchell Institute Director Megan O'Connell told the inquiry on the future of work that an intense focus on grades has led to other ...

Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, has an ATAR-related grievance. "Students select their courses with an eye to a number: the ATAR to enter a particular course," he wrote in his introduction to the STEM Industry-Schools Partnerships report. "Rightly or wrongly, ...