Coalition-era loopholes let the states underfund public schools,leaving them a long way off Gonski minimum standards - and Victoria is one of the worst.
This year’s Australia Day honours list celebrates the contribution of universities and academics to the nation.
The eye-watering amounts paid to key personnel to run some of Sydney’s more expensive private schools shows that they not only pay top dollar,but have evolved into very flash successful entities.
Fifty years after Gough Whitlam abolished university fees,opening up higher learning to all,educational equity is in retreat.
New data shows that Australian universities are recruiting fewer students from disadvantaged and poor backgrounds,putting in doubt the federal government’s ambitious plans to expand access to higher education.
Heather Sengmany first applied to TAFE to avoid a huge HECS debt,until one university stepped in.
Data shows Australia approves far fewer student visas from India than China,despite government ministers visiting India to promote skills study.
The Age has analysed the results of year 3 and 5 reading,writing and numeracy and found 15 public schools consistently outperforming high-fee private counterparts.
School systems would need to hit higher attendance and NAPLAN targets and provide greater funding transparency,under an expert panel’s proposals to the nation’s education ministers.
Australia has 650,000 overseas students due to a surge in arrivals after the pandemic.
The new plan comes after a damning senate inquiry report found the existing regulator was failing to hold universities to account.