Is our existing education system in a position to meet the needs of students with disability and diverse learning needs? Or is it time to fundamentally change our approach to ensure that we cater to every learner's needs in a ...
More »What PISA has taught us about education: report
Do private school students perform better than those from public schools? Does a student’s socio-economic background affect their overall achievement? And do autonomous or more centralised schools perform better? These are just some of topics addressed in a report entitled ...
More »Opinion: what a local and an international scandal suggest about education inequality
ABC Chief Economics Correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous for her supposed anti-Liberal bias, she provoked the opposite kind of ire by asking the internet for their “… stories about ...
More »Questioning the paradox of equity in education
I have been worried for some time about the concept of equity and how it is usually understood in relation to schooling. It seems to me to be very strange that family income, as one indicator, can determine how children ...
More »Problem children: the issues concerning today’s teens
“As a uni student who just moved out of home, being able to pay rent as well as survive without a job or parental help was my biggest stress ... the availability of jobs to uni students, especially new ones I ...
More »Catholic heads almost in the cloud
Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) is no longer daydreaming. The body once imagined implementing a cloud-based learning platform across its 163 schools, and now they're actually doing it. Seventy-eight thousand students - from Broome to Beagle Bay - will be signed up to ...
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