It seems all their non-legal avenues are exhausted. Adelaide-based Islamic College of South Australia will not receive further funding, an internal review of a government decision has confirmed. Education minister Simon Birmingham said the internal review's decision, which upheld that ...

The government gives a Gonski. Or, according to Labor, at least that’s what they want you to think. This week, Malcolm Turnbull unveiled his Quality Schools reforms, which includes $242.3 billion in recurrent funding over the next 10 years. Different to ...

Evidence suggests more Commonwealth money alone won’t improve outcomes for Australia’s schoolchildren, and federal investment is not the portion that has been in decline. By Kevin Donnelly State, territory and Commonwealth education ministers have started the process of designing a ...

As the debate about school funding and closing the gap between rich and poor schools continues, one expert has argued increasing public school funding is not the answer, instead saying the federal government should look at implementing a US-style charter ...

The school funding debate has dissolved into the sad and unhelpful imbroglio of half-truths that plagued us for three or four decades before we, almost, all settled on a new model. Let’s be clear at the outset about the Independent ...

The national lobby group for independent schools has warned that “any sudden and unexpected changes” to Commonwealth funding could hurt schools that cater for students with disability. The Independent Schools Council of Australia (ISCA) said as almost one-fifth of students with ...

In 2014, a Victorian Catholic school attracted more than double the Commonwealth funding of a comparable Catholic school in New South Wales. In the same year, one independent school in the ACT received 64 per cent more Commonwealth funding per student ...

A survey has found that while most parents intend to save money for their children’s education, only one-third follow through – and most believe the federal government should help. The Australian Scholarships Groups (ASG) surveyed 1000 parents. ASG found that even though 93 per cent ...

As a result of the recent election, one certainty is that we live in uncertain times. The final Senate results will not be known for some weeks and if, as looks likely, there is a hung Parliament, then whoever governs ...

With federal Labor pledging $393 million to train 25,000 specialist STEM teachers, its Victorian state counterpart has already allocated $27 million to train these teachers – via a program to be rolled out through Deakin University. The Victorian education minister, ...