Education Policy Series: Quality education for all
Education intern Jessica Stead introduces the Centre for Policy Development’s new series on education funding policy
Quality education for all – from rhetoric to reality
The next stage of the Centre for Policy Development’s education policy series will focus on our schools system and on education funding in particular. Over the next two months we will invite teachers, academics,...
Labor’s education policy buried by an untrue tale
In the second of two articles on the myths behind the education debate, Anthony Ashbolt shoots down the ‘hit list’ theory of Labor’s lost election.
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
Revaluing education
Inequality in schools and under-investment in higher education It certainly is time for a new debate in this country about the pressing need to re-examine the values and principles which underpin our education systems....
Education Topic 1: Responding to parental anxiety
Our education system is no longer based on values, writes Chris Bonnor in the third article in the Education Policy Development Series. Instead we have a system that has developed through inconsistent decisions made...
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....
Education policy program — call for responses
The Centre for Policy Development‘s policy priorities. We intend to take a logical approach to education and publish on a range of identified topics. The first topic we wish to consider is: ‘Why parents...
Education as a commons: why we should all share in the picnic of knowledge
James Arvanitakis argues that education vouchers would result in a stratified school system, more focused on marketing to parents than providing quality education to students. Rather than answering the problems caused by partial commercialisation...
A New Approach to Educational Policy
Don Aitkin outlines the basic principles upon which we can develop a cohesive eduction policy focused on building a well-functioning society of competent adults. Instead of scattering education funding to appease different interest groups,...