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November 7, 2016

Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system

Dean Ashenden, The University of Melbourne

Massive expansion of the education system has created new problems, and left old ones unresolved.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced the winners and losers of his ministerial reshuffle. Lukas Coch/AAP

September 20, 2015

Turnbull unveils cabinet line‑up: experts respond

Jeff Borland, The University of Melbourne; Dean Ashenden, The University of Melbourne; Gwilym Croucher, The University of Melbourne; Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW ; John Blaxland, Australian National University; John Rice, University of Sydney; Peter Whiteford, Australian National University, and Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, The University of Melbourne

What are the key challenges for ministers entering new portfolios in Malcolm Turnbull’s first cabinet? The Conversation asked experts in key policy areas to respond.

Introducing a new type of school will only make things worse for Australia’s already inequitable system. Matt/Flickr

August 31, 2015

Charter schools would only make our school system’s problems worse

Dean Ashenden, The University of Melbourne

Feeding yet more choice and competition into a system that has such distorted forms of both can only compound our problems.

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