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Aleisha Orr A former group leader details his experiences of a South Korean religious sect called Shincheonji, which is recruiting members across Australian university campuses.

Jane Caro With fewer disadvantaged children completing high school, the federal government is under pressure to cover a shortfall with the states in public school funding.

Mike Seccombe As figures reveal public schools are underfunded by more than $6 billion a year, unpublished research shows politicians are twice as likely as the general public to be privately educated.

Rick Morton The murder of a young woman at an elite private school, and the reaction from a former principal, has highlighted a broader culture of privilege in which young boys are protected from consequence or culpability.

Martin McKenzie-Murray A plan to save the Australian Catholic University’s accreditation has backfired spectacularly with the dismantling of its prestigious philosophy department less than five years on – leaving some of the world-class academics it courted considering legal action.

Rick Morton As academics strike at multiple universities, so-called sector reforms have turned what were places of higher learning and research into corporatised money makers.