Book review: Waiting For Gonski: How Australia Failed its Schools, by Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor With the …
In the final part in our series of what the next government should do to save Australian education, …
Some of the richest and most powerful individuals and corporations in Australia are involved in educational philanthropy – …
Much has been said about David Gonski’s second review of school funding in Australia. It is a document …
My favourite episode of the American television comedy Seinfeld is the one titled “The Opposite”. Jerry Seinfeld’s mate, George, was always down on his luck until one day he decided to do the opposite of everything that came into his head. His natural instincts had gotten him nowhere. He had no job and was still …
Education ministers from all of Australia’s governments, state, territory and Commonwealth, met on Friday to begin negotiations over …
Parents who choose a private school for their child have a ‘right’ to expect governments to help with the costs because they are taxpayers; so the argument goes in Australia. Certainly chief executive of Independent Schools Victoria, Michelle Green, makes such an argument. But where does this so-called ‘right’ come from? Neither Michelle Green nor …