If schools and childcare centres shut without the necessary support, Australia may permanently lose valuable teachers and early childhood educators.
- Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
In 2009, Australian governments made an agreement to provide all four-year-olds with access to preschool delivered by a trained teacher from 2013. We’re a long way from this goal.
Funding debates dominated most education policy talks in 2017, but discussions look to be extending past the dollar value in 2018 with a number of high profile reports due for release.
Australia has the third most expensive education system in the OECD, but we might not be getting what we pay for.
We take a closer look at some of the common claims made this year to see if there is any truth to them.
While spending has grown for preschools, schools and universities, vocational education misses out.
Education policy in Australia is being held back by a lack of data.
Young people today will need to be more flexible and more entrepreneurial than in the past. Universities can help by designing courses that will have value in a rapidly changing economy.
Average NAPLAN results don’t tell the full story. Diving into the details is essential if we are to understand what is going on in Australian education.
Labor’s policy does, however, fail to commit to long-term funding for universal access to preschool education.
Government funding of childcare is seen as something that helps get mums back into work, instead of setting children up for learning before they start school.
Our education system fails to amplify students’ creativity and interest in learning. To continue along the current path is increasingly unscientific, unjustifiable and plain dull.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
The children most likely to benefit from quality early education are the most likely to miss out. Here are five key changes the government needs to make to address this.
It is not a question about whether to invest in bold and meaningful education policy, but how to invest, where it is needed, and in the areas that are proven to have impact.
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