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The world is in a state of transition. The Indian and Chinese economies continue to grow at around 9 and 10 per cent respectively each year, while the North Atlantic economies - the 20th century epicentre…
Making students repeat a year when they’re not doing well socially or academically is not uncommon in Australia. About 8-10% of students repeat a grade at some point in school life. But there is a major…
We claim that society’s most important investment is in the education of its people. But prescribing a school leaving age of 17 is not only uncomfortable for some but downright constraining for others…
There is no excuse for Indigenous education in Australia to be in such a terrible and shameful state. Given the billions of dollars that are allocated to primary and secondary schooling Australia-wide…
Eugenics — the science of improving the race —was a powerful influence on the development of Western civilisation in the first half of the twentieth century. And Melbourne’s elite were among its chief…
All is not well in the Australian school system. Australian schools are struggling to meet the achievement levels of OECD leader Finland. With the release of the commissioned research reports for the Gonski…
Human speech has long been present in every culture, and our brains have evolved specialized features to enable its rapid development when we are exposed to the speech of others. Reading however is a relatively…
There is a crisis in the education system, and it’s affecting the life chances of many young Australians. The number of secondary teaching graduates with adequate qualifications to teach mathematics is…
There are two main approaches to teaching children to read. Phonics, involves teaching children to recognise combinations of characters and establish the meanings of words based on combining them. The…
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Management Consultant & Occasional Lecturer in Management & Economics, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Dean of Education, School of Education and Institute for Education, Bath Spa University
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Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University
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Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Australian Catholic University
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