A commitment of $46 million to support early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been announced by Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan ahead of this week’s Education Council meeting in Alice Springs. The aim of the funding is to ...
More »Lack of consultation before proposed subsidies cuts angers NT teachers
If proposed cuts to teacher housing subsidies in the remote Northern Territory town of Katherine go ahead, the area could be facing a teacher exodus, leading to a deterioration of education outcomes and community wellbeing. This was the view put ...
More »Budget roundup: government ‘window-dressing’ school funding
In his pre-election Budget speech, treasurer Josh Frydenberg stressed that education is the first defence of the nation. “While money is important, so too is the quality of education afforded to all Australians,” he said. So how did the Budget ...
More »Private school-educated scholars attack ‘old boys and girls clubs’
Most future wealth – at least in Western nations – will be inherited. But billionaires still put their children in the best position to grow their fortunes, by enrolling them in private or elite public schools. Bill Gates sent his ...
More »‘Australia’s founders wouldn’t have wanted this’: a case for secular education
Professor Marion Maddox is disappointed with the government. She is worried their injection of extra funds into independent and Catholic schools will further damage "one of the most religiously and economically segregated systems in the western world". Catherine Helen Spence, ...
More »Education spending ‘incoherent’: Mitchell Institute
An education policy and research body has rebuked the government for its approach to sector funding, calling it "disjointed". Victoria University's Mitchell Institute, in its report Expenditure on Education and Training in Australia 2017, based its view on 2015-16 federal, state ...
More »Rural student schools Birmo: don’t ‘play the blame game’
Geordie Brown sat his last HSC exam on Friday. Last night, he faced a different, albeit similarly daunting ordeal: the QandA studio. The teen from Tamworth's Oxley High School was one of four high school panellists on the ABC program's ...
More »Rural literacy program receives funding
A new literacy and numeracy program for remote students has received a boost, after the federal government allocated a further $4.1 million to the initiative. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham made the funding announcement after the release of ...
More »Ten-year-olds code on government’s tab
Sid Jain, a serious looking ten-year-old, was so entranced by coding his eyes didn’t leave the screen when I asked him his name. Though he assured me he was “having fun” as he completed the below task. Jain’s year 5 ...
More »Billion dollar babies: the cost of not finishing school
The following does not contain typos: disengaged 24-year-olds cost taxpayers $69 billion over a lifetime. This is one of the major findings of the Mitchell Institute’s new report, Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education. The Institute, based ...
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