Give more to teachers who do the hard yards
Unless Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop commits to increased public schools funding, her plan for a teacher incentive fund would force the most under-resourced public schools to do more with less, writes Jane Caro
Education Topic 1: Desperately Seeking Safety
the Centre for Policy Development introduces the first article in its Education Policy Development Series. Jane Caro responds to widespread parental anxiety about the safety of children in general and in relation to education....
Australia and the World: Healthy, Wealthy and Unwise
Jane Caro writes, 'Generosity by the West, by rich countries like Australia, particularly in the areas of health and education, will do more to help our long-term security than all the Australian Federal Police...
The Value of Simplicity: Flat tax?
One of the universal burdens today is the increasing level of complexity in everyone's lives. From the poor to the rich, everything seems to be hard to understand, time consuming and bureaucratic. Business has...
The Value of Merit
Jane Caro continues the Values and Principles debate by examining the concept of Merit.