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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
Books & Arts
A “self-fulfilling, rolling disaster”?
Dean Ashenden
5 March 2014
A new narrative for Australian schooling would accept diversity and competition, but competition for achievement rather than for students or money, writes
Dean Ashenden
International
Independent schools: an idea whose time has passed
Francis Beckett
12 February 2014
Christopher Pyne’s plan for “independent” public schools bears a family resemblance to the academies and free schools that have undermined British education,…
National Affairs
My school and yours: the disappearing achievers
Chris Bonnor
11 February 2014
A new analysis of schools data shows why we mustn’t walk away from the promise of Gonski, writes
Chris Bonnor
Essays & Reportage
Coming, ready or not
Dean Ashenden
19 November 2013
Technology is going to drive the first revolution in schooling since the invention of the printing press, says
Dean Ashenden
. But it’s not just a matter of the machinery
National Affairs
The Gonski prospect
Dean Ashenden
29 August 2013
Gonski has come to symbolise a sense of social decency, writes
Dean Ashenden
. But how much “Gonski” is left in the plan, and how will it look after the election?
National Affairs
Competition, “autonomy” and schools
Dean Ashenden
15 July 2013
It may be that school policy can learn more from the Australian Football League than from Shanghai or Finland, says
Dean Ashenden
Essays & Reportage
The Grattan line
Dean Ashenden
2 July 2013
The Grattan Institute has much of importance to contribute to the education debate, writes
Dean Ashenden
. Its hits and misses reveal a lot about Australian schooling, and…
National Affairs
Student achievement: frozen by inequity
Bernie Shepherd
10 April 2013
Amid the fraught discussions about Gonski, the need to resolve deep-seated problems of equity and student achievement remains urgent, writes
Bernie Shepherd
National Affairs
We know about the 457. What about the 485?
Peter Mares
28 March 2013
A different visa category could be the subject of future debates about temporary migration, writes
Peter Mares
National Affairs
Class sizes and the dead hand of history
Dean Ashenden
1 March 2013
Sure, smaller classes would be good, but at what opportunity costs, asks
Dean Ashenden
Essays & Reportage
Evolutionary tinkering in revolutionary times
Dean Ashenden
15 February 2013
The current system of teacher education isn’t working for many students.
Dean Ashenden
looks at the alternatives, and their adversaries
National Affairs
Another blow to democracy in universities
Paul Rodan
20 December 2012
Removing staff and student representatives from university councils in Victoria threatens scholarly values and independent criticism, argues
Paul Rodan
National Affairs
Gonski and Gillard won’t fix this problem
Chris Bonnor
28 November 2012
In a forthcoming paper for the Centre for Policy Development,
Chris Bonnor
describes a worsening school equity problem that will persist for decades to come
Essays & Reportage
Decline and fall?
Dean Ashenden
22 November 2012
Twenty-five years ago, John Dawkins dramatically reshaped higher education. His critics still fail to distinguish the good from the bad in his reforms, writes
Dean Ashenden
National Affairs
Frank Gagliado’s schooling: a one-hundred year view
Dean Ashenden
17 October 2012
All’s not necessarily well in the classroom – even when it happens to end well
Essays & Reportage
Two suburbs, 167 lives: how the Life Chances study turned twenty-one
Melissa Sweet
8 October 2012
In 1990 a team of researchers began tracking a group of babies born in two inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their latest results paint a complex picture of obstacles, opportunities and…
National Affairs
A shift in the monolingual mood
Lisa Waller
26 September 2012
A new parliamentary report challenges the thinking behind the downgrading of Indigenous languages in schools, writes
Lisa Waller
National Affairs
The revolution that became a crusade
Dean Ashenden
5 September 2012
The government has at last come up with the outline of a strategy for reforming schools, writes
Dean Ashenden
. The worry is in what the prime minister didn’t say
National Affairs
Latham’s list was a hit in the polls
Peter Browne
27 August 2012
Mark Latham’s school funding policy was seen as an electoral minus for Labor. The polls disagree
National Affairs
Gonski, again
Dean Ashenden
2 August 2012
Gonski’s recommendations can work if we keep in mind how they might fail, writes
Dean Ashenden
National Affairs
Creating and choosing good schools
Chris Bonnor
12 July 2012
Creating better schools is a long and often tortuous process, writes
Chris Bonnor
. The first step is to focus on policies that can actually work
Essays & Reportage
Good at gardening, hopeless at engineering
Dean Ashenden
13 June 2012
Restless innovation saved Australian schools from their structural problems, writes
Dean Ashenden
. But now the strains are well and truly showing
National Affairs
Whose university website?
Dean Ashenden
5 April 2012
One vital question has been overlooked in the coverage of the federal government’s My University website, writes
Dean Ashenden
. Why duplicate a service that already exists?
National Affairs
“Asianising” education: the China option?
Antonia Finnane
26 March 2012
If we want to engage or compete with universities in Asia, we need to be clear about the aims of our own education system
National Affairs
Gonski the game-changer
Chris Bonnor
29 February 2012
The Gonski report has brought together an enormous body of evidence to show why equity must be at the centre of school policy, writes
Chris Bonnor
, and has decisively…
National Affairs
Gonski’s review: another salvo in the Hundred Years’ War
Dean Ashenden
24 February 2012
Strongly argued, thoroughly evidenced, and unlikely to succeed.
Dean Ashenden
looks at the Gonski report on school funding
National Affairs
Closing the gap: another year of slow progress
Lesley Russell
24 February 2012
Lesley Russell
analyses the figures in the prime minister’s 2012 report
Essays & Reportage
Learning in both worlds
Lisa Waller
27 October 2011
Despite the international evidence, the Northern Territory has discouraged bilingual programs in its schools, writes
Lisa Waller
. But there are early signs of another…
National Affairs
International students and the law of unintended consequences
Peter Mares
28 September 2011
The federal government’s new rules designed to increase student numbers could boost the number of migrants who are permanently temporary, writes
Peter Mares
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