Australia Association for Research in Education
stop govt funding of private schools
Timid thinking no longer cuts it. Change is needed now
Their buildings are substandard— cheap and poorly ventilated. Their classrooms are under resourced and uninviting. Their gardens are …
How to fix education: cut tests, defund private schools
In the final part in our series of what the next government should do to save Australian education, …
Stop all government funding for private schools. (Why and how we could do it)
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 …