National affairs
12 October 2017
Gonski 2.0 is a chance to influence school policy for the better, but the window closes soon
Essays & reportage
28 September 2017
Could a new model of online learning break down the growing divide between Australian schools?
Essays & reportage
21 September 2017
Australian universities need to guard against the possibility that collaborations with their Chinese peers could undermine free enquiry
National affairs
1 July 2017
A tribute to the influential educationalist and Inside Story contributor Bernie Shepherd
National affairs
15 May 2017
With Labor implacably opposed, the Greens must play a positive role in the Senate
National affairs
12 May 2017
After a forty-year detour, are we heading towards a plan envisaged in 1973?
National affairs
10 May 2017
The threat from Tony Abbott is no longer taken seriously, and the budget is all the better as a result
National affairs
4 May 2017
A successful Gonski version 2 is essential – but far from sufficient – for genuine school reform
National affairs
27 April 2017
The sting in the tail of the new citizenship rules is a wholly unrealistic English-language hurdle
National affairs
15 March 2017
New PISA results confirm that the social makeup of schools affects the performance of individual students
National affairs
27 February 2017
Critics of extended formal education misunderstand the demands of the modern workplace
Essays & reportage
16 February 2017
Australia urgently needs a new school funding structure, says one of the authors of the Gonski report, and it’s not the one Labor, the Coalition or their critics have in mind
Essays & reportage
1 February 2017
Schools in Australia and New Zealand set off in opposite directions in the 1970s. Tom Greenwell looks at where they have ended up
Essays & reportage
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
National affairs
28 September 2016
Federal minister Simon Birmingham has fired the first shots in the latest battle of the school funding wars. Here’s our short guide to the terrain
Essays & reportage
21 September 2016
With education ministers meeting this week to discuss school funding, a close look at the figures reveals large differences between states and sectors
Essays & reportage
6 September 2016
Governments began watering down Gonski’s school-funding recommendations right from the start, says panel member Ken Boston. But New South Wales shows how it could have been
From the archive
28 July 2016
We’re still living with the legacy of Labor’s decision to support public funding of non-government schools
National affairs
2 June 2016
It’s all there in the latest My School data, write Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. The downside costs of our present school-funding system are high and rising
Essays & reportage
17 May 2016
Expanding how economics measures and reports will have enormous benefits, writes Jane Gleeson-White. And it’s already happening
National affairs
10 December 2015
Education is the sector that most urgently needs to be freed from the Abbott legacy, writes John Quiggin
Books & arts
27 October 2015
Books | Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes Simon Marginson
Books & arts
6 October 2015
Music | Take singing seriously and you're on your way to solving the problem of music education, writes Andrew Ford
National affairs
24 September 2015
Don’t be surprised if the Coalition embraces an updated Gonski plan for school funding, writes Dean Ashenden
National affairs
24 July 2015
Australia’s school funding system keeps shifting resources towards non-government schools, write Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. And the argument that…
National affairs
14 July 2015
The Coalition has been fighting on the same terrain for nearly two years, writes Peter Browne, but it hasn’t shaken Labor’s lead in the polls
Essays & reportage
24 June 2015
Dean Ashenden takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary
National affairs
12 May 2015
Andrew Leigh takes a data-driven look at what the critics say about young Australians
Books & arts
30 March 2015
Books | Two new books highlight how Australian universities have changed in recent decades, writes Beverley Kingston
National affairs
24 March 2015
Historically and comparatively, public funding of Australian universities is at a record-breaking low, writes Rodney Tiffen