Books & arts
3 December 2019
Another bad PISA report suggests that Australia has not learned the basic lesson: school reform won’t work in the absence of major structural change
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