If schools raise fees, parents may choose to send their children to state schools instead.
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New South Wales private school teachers are pushing for a pay rise with the help of their union. They want up to 7% more than their public school colleagues.
We crunched the numbers and found when it comes to top awards, Rhodes scholarships and High Court appointments, the dominance of elite private school alumni has grown over the past 40 years.
Enrolling girls will not automatically make a boys school more inclusive. Schools need to look at things such as what is taught, extra-curricular activities and support for students.
The question of whether it’s a good idea to educate boys and girls separately has been debated in Australia for at least 160 years.
It’s that time of year when it seems the more school fees parents pay, the less time their children spend in school.
Parents have created schools to cater to their own religious and philosophical beliefs. Or to focus on the particular needs of their children and communities.
The way Australia’s school system is structured is especially unfair on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In a new report, education authors Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor propose a framework to increase parental choice and improve equity in the school system.
School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
Most school-choice programs in the US have been approved by lawmakers. But when asked for their views, voters have overwhelmingly rejected them.
My research suggests City firms’ efforts to deliver more equal representation at the top have not worked because they were never meant to.
There is a new push for private schools to open their grounds and facilities to the broader community
Federal, state and local efforts to help students recover learning they missed or lost during the pandemic are underway. But those projects don’t include the youngest students.
As the start of the school year looms, school uniform prices will be front-of-mind for many families already facing a cost of living crisis. What can be done to reduce the burden?
A study finds that graduates who attended publicly funded schools were more likely to have open intercultural orientations than those who attended private schools.
A Melbourne private school is opening online-only enrolments. Headlines have focussed on the $18,000 fees. But there are many reasons why in-person schooling may not work.
The single sex versus co-ed debate has been going for decades. But perhaps changing social norms will put an end to it.
The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
There is endless debate about whether private schools add value to students’ academic results. But research consistently shows when socioeconomic factors are taken into account, this is not the case.
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Senior Researcher in the School of Education, Deakin University
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Professor of Education, University of Sydney
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Emeritus Professor, Monash University. Professorial Fellow, Melbourne University, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Health Education, University of Sydney
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Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Labour Economics and Skills Development, UCL Institute of Education, UCL
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Adjunct Professor of Education, Victoria University
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Director of Education, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Method, Cardiff University
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Lecturer, Communication and Conflict Management, Mount Kenya University
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Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Michigan State University
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Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
