While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
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So far the budget has given us more education gift cards to use in the stores of the federal government’s choosing - two more tests for children; one when they come into school and one when they leave.
Plans to turn all schools into academies by 2022 have caused a crisis within the party.
The children most likely to benefit from quality early education are the most likely to miss out. Here are five key changes the government needs to make to address this.
International education tests reveal Australia has either stagnated or declined in many subject areas, including maths and science, while other countries have made big improvements. Why is this?
After a three-week debacle, the findings of the review into the Safe Schools Coalition program are out. Here’s what academic experts make of the review.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Around one in five Australian school students are disengaged, leading to disruptive behaviours in class and students dropping out.
Funding is one of the few areas Labor has left to distinguish itself from the Coalition when it comes to school policy at the national level.
Labor has announced it will commit to fully funding Gonski, with a reform package costing $37.3 billion over the next decade.
But is this actually what the Gonski review recommended?
Parents need to be pushier and demand private school places for their children.
The political obsession with back to basics literacy is leaving schools behind. What is taught in school is becoming increasingly distant from what is required in the real world.
Bill Shorten is pushing schools funding to the centre of this year’s election battle by committing to fully funding the Gonski blueprint.
By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
Inner-city parents in urban redevelopment zones are the most likely to have problems getting their children into a government school.
A change in enrolment patterns demands a more comprehensive approach to selection to teacher education programs that goes beyond establishing minimum ATAR cutoff points.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
Around a fifth of children aged five to 16 will experience reading difficulties. Schools need clear guidelines on how to choose the best literacy programs for their students.
When Higher Education gets involved in our children’s schooling, we risk widening inequalities and creating ethical dangers.
2013 was the year of Gonski; 2014 the year of higher education reform; 2015 has been the year of … hmmm … wait, what actually happened this year? Just a lot of chat really, with much debate, but little…
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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