Educational Leadership

This special funding deal will only further stimulate the private school sector and exacerbate segregation by socio-economic status across school sectors.

The Review to Achieve Education Excellence in Schools calls for a “sector-blind” approach to education reform, an approach that will “enable all students to achieve educational excellence”, regardless of their school sector. This latest announcement contradicts the prior policy papers from this government.

The public school sector caters for our society’s most disadvantaged. This is the school sector we should be actively celebrating and supporting through bold federal government initiatives.

Our new Prime Minister suggests his latest cash-splash to the education sector, which indisputably educates the better-off, is a solution to the schools funding wars? This isn't even a cease-fire, writes Jane Caro.

Just $3-4 million a year could maintain "affordable choice" for families at Catholic schools, the Grattan Institute said.

The cardinal, for the moment, is the face of clergy sex abuse coverup. His request to have his name removed followed a petition demanding it happen.