Over the last 150 years, NSW has responded to the demand for public secondary schooling differently from the rest of Australia.
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For many professional athletes, leaving their troubled neighborhoods for better resourced prep schools paved the way for success.
New analysis shows public schools have similar, or even better, results than private schools with similar rankings of socioeconomic status.
Only 9% of people in the UK are privately educated, and yet they occupy an especially high share in positions of public influence.
A single solution can’t magically erase gender-based violence in schools, but if we start listening to students, we may hear new stories of masculinity and femininity echoing through school hallways.
Private school teachers are generally happier than state school teachers, but not for the reasons you might think.
Research shows that it’s all about choice, not exclusivity, when it comes to finding a perfect match.
The anger at the sacking of the deputy headmaster at Melbourne’s Trinity Grammar is less about the haircut and more about what it represents.
Research explores why parents in Nairobi actively choose to send their children to private schools, despite the financial constraints.
Some of Victoria’s wealthiest private schools have reported spikes in numbers of students with disability. We should only trust those numbers if they’re moderated by qualified staff.
The Trinity Lutheran case signals the Supreme Court’s willingness to interpret separation of church and state as religious discrimination. What will this mean for the future of vouchers and school choice?
If we look at enrolment figures for public secondary schools, it’s untrue to say the steady drift towards private schools has been reversed.
As school choice advocates attempt to garner more widespread support for vouchers, a new kind of voucher system is growing: one that uses tax credits to subsidize private education.
In a world where educational opportunity is unjustly distributed, there are questions as to whether private schools should be exempt from paying income tax.
The Assisted Places Scheme was a controversial policy that got 75,000 poorer pupils a top-tier education. Or so it was claimed.
Australia’s school funding model provides high levels of public funding to private schools, while also allowing them to charge fees.
The reintroduction of grammar schools means that once again schools and headteachers will be required to make sense of contradictory national policies.
If the government is serious about tackling terrorism, politicisation and increased surveillance in private schools and universities will not be enough.
It’s unusual for children in Nigeria’s rural areas to have any access to private schooling, even if it’s of the low-cost variety. They must rely instead on poorly resourced government schools.
Maxine McKew speaks with education expert John Hattie about the kind of debates we really should be having around education.
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