The Student Voice

“From the day after I committed that horrible act, I was focused on bettering myself,” Benard McKinley said.

"I told my mom, ‘If I’m going to do this, then you need to sign up, too,’” Immanuel Patton recalled.

Jeremiah Armstead’s college coach is NBA legend Kenny Anderson, someone who understands struggle.

The Washington Post followed four Thomas Jefferson High School freshmen through a difficult, unusual and absorbing academic year.

After struggling through school, Lucy Senior was finally diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD as an adult. Now she's using her lived experience to help a new generation of neurodiverse students. 

Starting university is daunting for even the most academically-minded among us, but for Simione there was an extra layer of apprehension.

Con Theocharous remembers his father walked into Sydney Grammar School in the late 1970s and asked if he could have a scholarship. Then he finished in the top 1 per cent of the HSC.

A retired doctor, not wanting to waste his older years, returned to the Ivy League to keep learning

A two-week delay in the trials brought a flicker of joy for some year 12s, but for others, finishing major works seems impossible

Alondra Carmona, an 18-year-old Houston high school student, did not think she would be able to attend Barnard College after she used all of her savings to halt her family's eviction.

I was sent to three “tough love” programs meant to redirect me. Trying to run away from one made me feel that I had no choice but to become what I had been told I was.

Meet the kids for whom it’s normal to spend 90 minutes, or more, getting to school every day.

Almost 17,000 second round university offers were made to Victoria’s secondary school graduates on Friday, bringing the total number for this year to about 64,000.

As young people around the country worry about recently announced ATAR results and their futures, Mr Byrne brings words of encouragement: If you work hard and have a passion for something, "anything is possible".

“For years, it was a big regret,” said Ted Sams, who marched with the class of 2022.

Once a week, I sit down with my friend’s five-year-old nephew, Ben, and talk to him about numbers, planets and cells. Fun stuff. When my friend found out I was emigrating, he had one question. I think it’s a good one.

In segregated America in the 1930s, Merrill Pittman Cooper’s family was too poor for him to stay in school.

Joan Oliver has fulfilled a life-long dream to go to university, graduating with her law degree at the age of 75.

End of school exams have been causing stress for generations, but one third of students who graduate will rely on something other than their ATAR score, like an interview or an early entry program to get into university.