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Pyne talked more about changing taxes and incentives to stimulate growth and industry, whereas Carr had clear plans for government investment.
The huge growth in student numbers is restricting the government’s capacity to increase levels of public funding per student and for research.
The main failure of university expansion is the unwillingness to fund it. Costs are certainly escalating, but priorities are always political as well as financial.
While on the face of it a 1.5% increase in the number of disadvantaged students going to university might seem minimal, in real terms this is genuinely significant.
Labor’s policy essentially creates a new layer of tertiary education that would involve universities and TAFE Institutes working together to deliver associate degrees and advanced diplomas.
The threshold for paying back student loans will vary depending on which party wins the election.
The way the higher education sector uses data from the OECD is often technically correct, but substantively misleading.
Some students struggle because of biological constraints on learning. This can be overcome to an encouraging degree, but only with special and adequate resources.
Media reporting and policies almost always tend to focus on what is wrong with Indigenous Australians. This is having unintended consequences.
Drawing can help us to think creatively and develop hand-eye coordination. But an insecurity around ‘not being able to draw’ is preventing many high-school students from using this skill.
Labor’s policy does, however, fail to commit to long-term funding for universal access to preschool education.
Education does help to grow the economy, but research highlights some severe limitations.
We have an ever-increasing number of children and families facing complex challenges and we know next to nothing about who they are and how they are doing.
Responsibility for the operation of public schools needs to be separated from the policymaking and regulatory functions and put into a separate authority.
Maxine McKew speaks with education expert John Hattie about the kind of debates we really should be having around education.
Students from non-English speaking backgrounds learn differently depending on the types and number of languages they speak and are literate in.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
The cultures of silence and denial that surround child sexualised behaviours mean that adults often lack the information they need to respond appropriately.
Schools need to avoid practices that exclude badly behaved students and instead offer more ongoing, personalised support.
Is being a pushy parent good? It is helpful to protect your child in ways that mean they don’t fail? Here’s what the research says.
Government funding of childcare is seen as something that helps get mums back into work, instead of setting children up for learning before they start school.
Mixed messages from the Coalition government around schools policy are not only confusing, but also raise deeper questions about whether they have a firm position on schooling at all.
Now that the OLT is closing and the grants and fellowships are lost, it is not clear whether the government will play an active role in enhancing teaching excellence in our universities.
Performance pay is seen as an unsuccessful intervention which oversimplifies and even demeans educational practice. It won’t improve teacher quality in Australia.