Some Liberals love to deride Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. In the past, the government’s immigration minister and attack dog, Peter Dutton, was particularly insulting when she was spokeswoman in his…
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Federal and state government funding to the Catholic sector does not necessarily then flow straight to the school.
Haunted by the unpopular 2014 budget, the government is treading more carefully with its new education policies.
The Turnbull government is seeking to seize the political initiative on schools, with a big funding injection and the appointment of David Gonski to chair a ‘Gonski 2.0’ review.
Hidden in the detail of the latest higher education reform package, there are talks of creating teaching-only universities.
The government is seeking savings of $2.8 billion from higher education over the budget period, in another attempt at a major shake-up of Australia’s university sector.
Here’s how the government’s new childcare plan will change the way families are given assistance with paying for child care.
The education minister says that under Labor there were child care price spikes of up to 14% over a 12 month period, but under the Coalition those have fallen to “around 6% on average”. Is that right?
The government has announced it will accept recommendations to make the university admissions process more transparent. But that alone isn’t enough.
More students than ever before have the opportunity for higher education but their choices are being undermined by a confusing admissions system in much need of reform.
The past two years have not been happy ones for the arts sector in Australia. It all began in early 2014 with federal Ministers Brandis and Turnbull telling artists at the Sydney Biennale that they were…
The government is right to cut back on funding certain VET courses that have low-enrolment rates and are unlikely to lead to work.
Placing greater control over student fees will not lift the quality of student outcomes and ensure the integrity of the qualifications issued.
A crackdown on the widely rorted vocational education and training student loan program aims to reduce outstanding HELP debt.
Australia’s school funding model provides high levels of public funding to private schools, while also allowing them to charge fees.
University of Canberra professorial fellow Michelle Grattan and senior lecturer in political science Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics.
Instead of a needs-based model, we ended up with an inconsistent patchwork of approaches across Australian states and territories that protected the vested interests of non-government schools.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham has released figures to prepare the way for a major overhaul of federal funding for schools.
The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement. Is that true?
Under the proposed plan for reform, there is still a risk that private providers will continue to shop between the Commonwealth and the states for the best price and conditions.
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