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education
National Affairs
In praise of credentialism
John Quiggin
27 February 2017
Critics of extended formal education misunderstand the demands of the modern workplace
Essays & Reportage
Gonski at five: vision or hallucination?
Ken Boston
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
“We wouldn’t want to be where you guys are, that’s for sure”
Tom Greenwell
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
The plight of the Right
John Edwards
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
National Affairs
Money, schools and politics: some FAQs
Dean Ashenden
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
Institutionalised inequality
Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd
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
What Gonski really meant, and how that’s been forgotten almost everywhere
Ken Boston
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
The educational consequences of the peace
Dean Ashenden
28 July 2016
We’re still living with the legacy of Labor’s decision to support public funding of non-government schools
National Affairs
School’s out during the long election campaign
Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd
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
A new mother tongue
Jane Gleeson-White
17 May 2016
Expanding how economics measures and reports will have enormous benefits, writes
Jane
Gleeson-White
. And it’s already happening
National Affairs
Innovation: the test is yet to come
John Quiggin
10 December 2015
Education is the sector that most urgently needs to be freed from the Abbott legacy, writes
John Quiggin
Books & Arts
The knowledge factories
Simon Marginson
27 October 2015
Books
| Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes
Simon Marginson
Books & Arts
Serious about singing
Andrew Ford
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
Could Turnbull give a Gonski?
Dean Ashenden
24 September 2015
Don’t be surprised if the Coalition embraces an updated Gonski plan for school funding, writes
Dean Ashenden
National Affairs
Closing the wrong gaps
Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd
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
Fighting old battles, losing the war
Peter Browne
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
Wrestling with Sir Ken
Dean Ashenden
24 June 2015
Dean Ashenden
takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary
National Affairs
Reckless beyond words?
Andrew Leigh
12 May 2015
Andrew Leigh
takes a data-driven look at what the critics say about young Australians
Books & Arts
University days
Beverley Kingston
30 March 2015
Books
| Two new books highlight how Australian universities have changed in recent decades, writes
Beverley Kingston
National Affairs
The university rankings no government wants to talk about
Rodney Tiffen
24 March 2015
Historically and comparatively, public funding of Australian universities is at a record-breaking low, writes
Rodney Tiffen
National Affairs
The empire strikes back
Dean Ashenden
22 February 2015
Christopher Pyne’s teacher education review wants serious reform, but it may serve to protect the monopoly that produced the problems, writes
Dean Ashenden
Books & Arts
A fight or a feed? Making progressive politics in schooling
Dean Ashenden
12 February 2015
Books
| An American polemic about Chinese schools and OECD league tables exposes problems closer to home, argues
Dean Ashenden
Essays & Reportage
What makes a MOOC?
Daniel Nethery
27 January 2015
Anyone for astrophysics, statistics or Japanese art?
Daniel Nethery
samples the evolving offerings of massive open online courses
Books & Arts
Orthodoxy and heresy in school reform
Dean Ashenden
4 December 2014
What should we learn from US experiments, asks
Dean Ashenden
National Affairs
School equity: from bad to worse
Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd
22 October 2014
Gonski got it right, and in the years since he reported his findings have become more relevant than ever, write
Chris Bonnor
and
Bernie Shepherd
National Affairs
Détente? Donnelly, Wiltshire and the national curriculum
Dean Ashenden
14 October 2014
The federal government review of Labor’s national curriculum failed to provoke the furore most observers were expecting.
Dean Ashenden
looks at why
National Affairs
Australian schools: the view from Mars
Dean Ashenden
24 September 2014
The federal government's competition review is disastrously wrong about education, writes
Dean Ashenden
Books & Arts
The war that doesn’t end
Bill Hannan
11 September 2014
There
is
a solution to the plight of pariah schools
Books & Arts
Spaceship of the imagination
Martin Bush
8 June 2014
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
is an important chapter in the evolution of how we learn about science, says
Martin Bush
. But it’s far from being the last word
National Affairs
Mr Gonski and the social contract
Dean Ashenden
22 May 2014
Neither Labor nor the Coalition is rising to the challenge posed by Gonski, writes
Dean Ashenden
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