The largest proportion of students attending private schools in New South Wales is still in major cities. But inner regional areas are catching up.
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During the election we can expect to hear about school funding. This is one of the most contentious areas of education policy – and one voters care deeply about.
Over the past two decades, the number of students attending independent schools has grown faster than those attending public schools, particularly in high school.
Education Minister Dan Tehan has warned non-government schools that if they fail to open for the next term they will face losing funding. He said on Thursday that “as part of the funding requirement” a…
Private schools are set to get a boost of billions under a new formula that links government funding to parents’ incomes rather than the socioeconomic profile of where they live.
There’s no evidence that private schools produce better results than state schools for equivalent pupils.
Australia is in the midst of a population boom. But Catholic school enrolments have been decreasing since 2013.
Only 9% of people in the UK are privately educated, and yet they occupy an especially high share in positions of public influence.
Estimating parents’ capacity to contribute to their children’s schooling is both vital and politically sensitive. Schools with well-off parents get much less funding from government.
Catholic schools say they’re losing money under Gonski 2.0, but this is only true for schools serving students in affluent areas – those in poorer areas will either be unaffected, or get more.
Despite the need for both male and female teachers, male primary school teachers could be extinct by 2067.
The passage of the new schools funding program is a big win for Australian children.
For the first time, Education Minister Simon Birmingham has proposed a credible plan to deliver needs-based funding.
The Assisted Places Scheme was a controversial policy that got 75,000 poorer pupils a top-tier education. Or so it was claimed.
Allowing new faith schools to religiously select 100% of their pupils is not only problematic in terms of social integration, it is simply unfair.
More children are going to independent school in the UK, according to a new census.
Art has been sidelined and is in danger of only becoming a subject for the privileged.
Feeding yet more choice and competition into a system that has such distorted forms of both can only compound our problems.
Political debates around school funding focus on public versus private, which party is the Gonski champion, and who gets the most money. All of these debates miss the point.
The leak of four reform proposals for Australian schooling has triggered panic and confusion across the country. But while at first glance the proposals may seem worrying, they need to be put in context.
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