Through a combination of wealth, influence, and polished marketing campaigns, elite schools project an image of superiority, which …
Book review: Waiting For Gonski: How Australia Failed its Schools, by Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor With the …
In the final part in our series of what the next government should do to save Australian education, …
The “offensive and misogynistic behaviour” of elite private school boys that routinely erupts into the public consciousness is not an aberration. It is a byproduct of the heterosexist ‘machinery’ that organises relational life within these schools (Variyan & Wilkinson, under review). There is strong evidence that young female teachers are being responsibilised for boys sexually …
Over the past few days, media reports have exposed another sex scandal involving students at one of Sydney’s …
Parents who choose a private school for their child have a ‘right’ to expect governments to help with the costs because they are taxpayers; so the argument goes in Australia. Certainly chief executive of Independent Schools Victoria, Michelle Green, makes such an argument. But where does this so-called ‘right’ come from? Neither Michelle Green nor …