Australian education fails one in four young people. It is time we started exploring why school is not working for increasing numbers of disadvantaged children.
- Visiting Professor of Education and Social Justice, University of Huddersfield; and Emeritus Professor, Federation University Australia
Federal education minister Christopher Pyne has announced a scheme to make Australian schools “more autonomous”. Amid the fanfare of the announcement there was little detail except the hope that by 2017…
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, John Smyth identifies the failure of government policies to tackle the nation’s…
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