The gap between the disadvantaged and well-off schools is too big and must be dealt with in a new funding model. By Trevor Cobbold This will be a very big year for school education and a make or break year ...
More »Schools face major cuts
As long as current arrangement in school funding across Australia remains, significant funding opportunities may slip, the Australian Education Union said. AEU federal president Angelo Gavrielatos said the new federal government figures showed schools would lose up to $5.4 billion ...
More »Gonski changes can help all students
Many disadvantaged young people are missing out on a good education but by investing in them we raise the standard overall. The announcement by the Prime Minister recently of the government's response to the Gonski review is of immense importance ...
More »Sector unites against cuts
Educational leaders say that slashing funding flies in the face of the recommendations from the Gonski review. The NSW government decision to cut $1.7 billion from the education budget has left many teachers, students, parents and others associated with the ...
More »Grief over Gonski
Non-government school leaders are worried about the redirection of funding, saying it tips the scales too far to government schools. After a long and costly two-year process of research, analysis and consultations with key stakeholders across Australia, the education sector ...
More »Gillard $6.5bn answer on Gonski
The federal government has put pressure back on the states to implement its school funding system
More »Gonski off the agenda
Prime Minister Julia Gillard met the premiers and chief ministers on Wednesday for COAG, which had the Gonski schools funding review and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) at the top of the agenda. While there was a result for ...
More »Education not carbon tax focus of cabinet
Education rather than the carbon tax or asylum seekers was the focus of questions at a forum hosted by the Prime Minister in Queensland this week. Less than two weeks after the implementation of the federal government's carbon tax, the ...
More »Implement Gonski, says Labor MP
A Labor backbencher has called on his government to implement the Gonski school funding review “lock, stock and barrel”. The review, released in February, recommended a complete overhaul of school funding. It suggested governments spend a set amount per student, no matter what type ...
More »Calls for action on Gonski measures
One of the architects of the Gonski school funding reforms says an independent resourcing body must be set up now or the government risks losing the private schooling sector's faith. Ken Boston, who was on the panel led by David Gonski ...
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