This is first in a series of posts on the 2024 Budget. Today: school funding by Curtin University’s …
More students than ever before are being enrolled in Australia’s private schools, according to new data on school choice from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Most states and territories have experienced a similar trend. Even before current increases Australia had among the highest proportion of kids enrolled at non government schools in the OECD. Why …
School funding policy burst back onto the national agenda last Tuesday. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announced a ‘statement of intent’ had been signed with Western Australia to fully fund the state’s public schools by 2026. This language is important. A statement of intent is not a signed, five-year, bilateral funding agreement. There is still …
Their buildings are substandard— cheap and poorly ventilated. Their classrooms are under resourced and uninviting. Their gardens are …
Long-standing challenges in education confront the new Labor government: the teacher shortage; teacher pay and conditions; the equitable …
WATCH: There’s a snag in school funding. New Education Minister Jason Clare is like any other student on their first day of school – there is a lot to learn about the problems facing the education system in Australia. But, in this case, Mr Clare can discover the answers by revisiting one of the highlights …
Book review: Waiting For Gonski: How Australia Failed its Schools, by Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor With the …
A decade after LSLD was implemented, it became evident there were no improved educational outcomes across the State’s schools. …
Along with many fellow Australians I was momentarily heartened last year by the United Kingdom’s Labour party announcing that it would scrap elitist private schools in the UK (which are confusingly called “public schools”) if it won the UK election. Had it happened, those UK private schools would have been nationalised, their charitable status removed …
You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia. …