Bethany Hiatt

Tony Buti has refused to be drawn on the prospect of an amalgamation between two or more WA universities, shutting down speculation at a public forum.

Hundreds more Year 12s from private schools are getting special allowances — such as rest breaks or extra working time — in their final exams compared with their peers from public schools.

UWA professor David Blair and members of his team at the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre at Gingin, with equipment central to his team's part in the discovery of gravitational waves.

For former corporate leader Gary Smith, reconciliation and education have played equally important roles in his life.

WA has the worst ratio of public primary school students to teachers in the country and has done little to reduce class sizes over the past decade.

Most parents can't help but breathe a sigh of relief when school holidays come to an end.

The Cook Government often likes to point to its track record in education, but having the worst student-to-teacher ratios in Australia is hardly something to boast about.

Roger Cook has denied that being forced to juggle more students than public schools in other States has made the job of WA teachers more difficult.

Students at the University of Western Australia have been warned their personal details were exposed in a recent data breach.

Students received an email urging ‘heightened vigilance’ of their personal digital security after the university identified ‘unauthorised external access’ to the student information database.