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The number of students doing Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Schools programs has steadily increased in recent years from 171,700 in 2006 to 233,800 in 2010, according to National Centre for Vocational Education Research statistics published in December 2011. In ...

The thrust of the Gonski review’s formula for funding disadvantaged students, including those with a disability, is fairly straightforward. Take the schooling resource standard, a base amount, and add to it a loading, an additional amount, to reflect the cost ...

David Gonski and Denise Bradley need to talk. That might be the best way to sum up comments by university educators when asked for their thoughts on Gonski’s landmark Review of Funding for Schooling. At the heart of the funding ...

GONSKI – ANALYSIS Implementation Having promised that no school would be worse off under the Gonski review’s proposed funding model, the federal government neutralised the greatest political risk: the spectre of an elite school hit list.  That now leaves it ...

It took less than three hours after the release of the Gonski report for the first negative headlines to appear, screaming that the report called for means testing for private schools. The trigger was the ambiguous wording of Recommendation 2: ...

The proposed schooling resource standard is nothing less than revolutionary. Ignoring the ideological battles of the past 30 years, the Gonski panel has set a goal of finding a single, base amount to be applied to all students regardless of ...

Independent Public Schools (IPS) in Western Australia have cut the number of education assistants and increased overall staff on fixed term contracts, staffing data has revealed. In September 2011, 47 per cent of teachers in the IPS system were employed ...

Dorothy Hoddinott isn’t sure how many refugee students she has helped obtain their education in Australia, but she admits it’s in the hundreds. For the last decade, the Trust founded by Hoddinott has been providing assistance to refugee students to ...

A national program which has proven to be effective in boosting educational outcomes for indigenous youth through extra-curricular activities faces an uncertain future, with government refusing to confirm its ongoing funding. An independent evaluation by the Australian Council for Educational ...

A Harvard University-backed trial at two NSW public schools is investigating whether elements of coaching and positive psychology can be combined to provide social and emotional support to students. While the results are still being analysed, the researchers behind the ...