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?
New evidence-based methods of teaching and learning are being taken up very slowly.
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A new VET student loan scheme will aim at putting a stop to rorting by dodgy private colleges. Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the new scheme is being built from the ground up.
There is little regulation about how private schools spend public funding.
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A new school funding model being proposed aims to free up funds to help education ministers resolve their differences in state funding, and deliver needs-based funding in full.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is calling for a new education funding model to replace Gonski.
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Instead of a needs-based model, we ended up with an inconsistent patchwork of approaches across Australian states and territories that protected the vested interests of non-government schools.
Simon Birmingham said the government would work with the states for a new post-2017 deal ‘tied to evidence-based school improvement initiatives’.
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Education Minister Simon Birmingham has released figures to prepare the way for a major overhaul of federal funding for schools.
Reports often conceal the inflated capital funding that schools receive for things like play areas, swimming pools and gymnasiums.
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The claim that school spending has increased is misleading and simplistic.
Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.
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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.
If a funding promise is later “unpromised”, does that constitute a cut?
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Research shows linking teachers’ pay to performance has little impact on student achievement. Similar tests to the ones the government proposes for young children now face a backlash in the UK and US.
The Coalition want to standardised literacy and numeracy testing for students in years 1 and 12.
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