An Australian Education Union (AEU) 2023 poll found that public school teachers fork out a combined $159.5m a year to buy classroom supplies vital to education due to the underfunding of public schools by governments. The September results said 85 ...

Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace announced a $10 million expansion to the Trade to Teach internship program on Tuesday - a pathway that allows tradies to put down the tools and teach their skills. The new $20 million scheme is ...

More funding towards public schools, in-school tutoring programs and a statewide phone ban has been touted by both major parties in the lead-up to the NSW state election. Less than 60 days before the election, NSW Labor has pledged $400 ...

Some of the most expensive NSW private schools have been overfunded by the state government to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, leaving public schools ten per cent below their specified funding level, a new report has claimed.   ...

School funding is under the spotlight once again thanks to a recent report from the NSW Teachers Federation which revealed that about 130 private schools were overfunded by a total of 120 million dollars, leaving a government funding shortfall for ...

It’s been over a decade since the release of the Gonski report, the most significant school funding review in Australia’s recent history. The report, handed down in late 2011, proposed a fairer funding model to give children a high-quality education, ...

Private funding initiatives have the potential to create – or further cement – a multi-tiered education system based on parental capacity and inclination to pay.  Senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology Anna Hogan raised this concern on the back of ...

A new report has found that Australian student achievement has continued to decline despite being one of the highest spending countries on schooling in the world.  In a report by the Centre for Independent Studies’ (CIS) Glenn Fahey, titled Dollars ...

Despite the reform agenda made at the two-day Education Council meeting in Alice Springs, the Australian Education Union (AEU) has labelled it Groundhog Day. The AEU believes Australia’s education system is stuck in a “time loop of bad policy, no ...

More than two thirds of parents feel financial pressure when paying schools fees. Overall, 68 per cent of parents feel either a little or a lot of financial pressure to pay for school fees. This figure rose to 80 per ...