OECD data can be a cherry-picker’s picnic in local higher education funding debates.
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Australian tertiary education policy and funding debates are better served by domestic data.
A low sense of belonging is associated with negative behaviours including misbehaviour, drug and alcohol use at school, violence and dropping out of school.
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When students feel accepted and respected by their teachers and peers, they will actively engage in academic and non-academic activities.
Students’ sense of belonging at school is linked to how well they do at school.
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Australian students, on average, reported a poorer sense of belonging at school than the OECD average. But issues with sense of belonging aren’t distributed evenly across the population.
Both first- and second-generation immigrants in British Columbia and Ontario outperformed their non-immigrant counterparts in science literacy, in the 2015 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment.
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First and second-generation immigrants perform well in many Canadian provinces that take an “accommodation” approach.
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There is a growing trend in education towards using personality test data to predict a country’s social and economic progress.
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A revenue shortfall of about R50 billion has pushed the South African government to hike Value Added Tax (VAT) among other taxes.
Prince Edward Island ranks first in Canada’s Early Childhood Report 2017; Nunavut scores lowest, devoting only 0.9 per cent of its budget to early childhood education.
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Schools across Canada should ‘grow down’ and offer two years of full-day preschool, according to a new report. This would allow mothers to work, improve child outcomes and reduce income inequality.
Power price pain is worse than we thought.
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Officially, Australia’s average electricity prices are the 11th highest in the OECD. But a look at the numbers suggests this is a significant underestimate.
At the tertiary level, Australian households and international students contribute more than double the OECD average expenditure.
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Australia has the third most expensive education system in the OECD, but we might not be getting what we pay for.
Almost 10 per cent of Canadian 15-year-olds do not have the science proficiency level required to participate fully in society.
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Canada’s educational performance internationally has remained stagnant over the past decade. Students’ science and math proficiency is especially worrying.
Australia still lags behind comparable OECD countries in the participation of younger children – particularly three year olds.
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Despite good progress in recent years, there is still more to do, including improving access to early childhood education for three-year-olds.
The G20 displayed unprecedented global economic leadership in the past. That leadership is needed again today.
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The G20 has stopped showing economic leadership at a time when risks are high. Australia can play a role in addressing this.
Australia is doing well on enrolling four-year-olds in pre-school, but the picture on three-year-olds is less clear.
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The latest OECD report on early learning education and care gives Australia a mixed report card.
One of the cases brought to the ANCP alleged forced evictions at a coal mine in Colombia jointly owned by BHP Billiton.
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The Australian government is missing a vital opportunity to promote ethical business practice and mediate disputes before they blow up, by improperly resourcing the ANCP.
Teenagers don’t know as much as they should about managing money.
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Around a fifth of 15-year-olds in Australia do not have basic financial literacy.
The AiGroup’s Innes Willox, speaking on Q&A.
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The AiGroup’s Innes Willox told Q&A that Australia has one of the highest progressive tax rates in the developed world. Is that true?
If implemented, President Trump’s proposed foreign aid cuts would have many repercussions.
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As President Trump puts U.S. foreign aid on the chopping block, few Americans know much about it. Perhaps even fewer realize that the U.S. lags behind its peers on this front.
With widening income differences and growing social divisions, citizens are less willing to support each other and taxpayers less willing to pay taxes.
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Analysis shows that rising inequality over the past 20 years makes it harder to increase taxes and makes citizens less willing to pay them.
Jenny Macklin, shadow minister for families and social services, has attacked a Coalition proposal to raise the pension age.
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Labor’s Jenny Macklin said that under a Coalition proposal, Australia would have the highest pension age in the developed world. Is that right?
Shadow minister for education Tanya Plibersek said Australia is slightly below the international average on funding for schools.
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Tanya Plibersek, shadow minister for education, told reporters recently that Australia is slightly below average when it comes to international funding for our schools. Is that right?