Labor has tried to do the right thing by schools. But the Gonski reforms are far from a done deal — and this presents both problems and opportunities for educators.
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GONSKI FUNDING REVIEW
PromiseWatch 2013: what have the parties pledged on education?
As part of our Promise Watch series, Crikey and the Centre for Policy Development examine pledges from the two major parties on education. Andrew Crook and the CPD’s Julia Hosking report.
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Higher education cuts: robbing Peter to pay Paul
Pay closer attention to the cuts to higher education, say student writers Osman Faruqi and Gareth Bryant. It’s the poorest students who will feel this hit the most.
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Tony Abbott’s ‘reverse Midas touch’ on Coalition policy
The less Tony Abbott has to do with Coalition policy, the better. It doesn’t augur well for a Coalition government after September 14.
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Crikey Calling: the earning and learning podcast
Has the Business Council of Australia got a vision for Australia? Has anyone? Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane takes Crikey editor Jason Whittaker through the business agenda. Plus should we really give a Gonski?
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Gonski? What Gonski? Slaying a mythical giant
The Gonski education reforms are not what you might think they are — certainly not what Julia Gillard has adopted. Now the government has raised unrealistic hopes of real reform.
READ MORE‘Class warfare’ as govt tries to pay for Gonski
The government has mixed its messages on education funding, but ultimately the real benefits of Gonski may not lie in the extra money, which is just a means to an end.
READ MOREWith tighter budgets, universities must change course
The federal government’s university cuts will hit staff and students hard. And the lobbying effort will need to change course, writes Grattan Institute higher education program director Andrew Norton.
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The real education revolution Labor needs
Money alone won’t solve the crisis in Australian education, the former Labor leader argues in the current Quarterly Essay. Only system-wide institutional change will arrest declining standards.
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Why Christopher Pyne should go back to school
Australia’s secondary educational funding model is broken. To claim otherwise, as Christopher Pyne did today, will perpetuate both inequality and poor educational outcomes.
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Gonski’s education revolution demolished in a weekend
Within a single weekend a long debate over education reform took a dramatic and probably doomed turn. States have revolted on David Gonski’s plan, bouyed a likely Coalition government in Canberra.
READ MOREMost important legislation this year has nothing in it
The Australian Education Act — enshrining reforms from David Gonski’s review — goes before Parliament today. But it won’t address the really big questions around education.
READ MOREThe start (and finish) of an education revolution
Julia Gillard’s stirring speech both ramped up Gonski and trimmed it down. Labor has at last arrived at the point where an “education revolution” might start.
READ MOREPolitical games hide hard facts of Gonski education reform
David Gonski must feel like the only grown-up in the room. His report goes closest to painting a picture of what the education system should look like, but politicians just want to squabble.
READ MOREWho gives a Gonski?
Nearly 40 years after a Labor government first promised that no school would be worse off, another Labor administration has done the same.
READ MOREA review is about fairness and equity?
Crikey readers have their say.
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Schools don’t just need more money to succeed
The Australian report was full of calls for increased government spending, perhaps an extra $5 billion a year. The OECD’s report concluded that the countries with the best educational outcomes were not those that spent the most money.
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What healthcare can learn from the Gonksi review
The Gonski review is important reading, and not just for those interested in education. Inequities the report identifies in education are related in many ways to the inequities that occur in the distribution of health, writes Melissa Sweet.
READ MOREA HECS-like funding system for education
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREGonski: good report but too expensive?
Crikey media wrap: A landmark report into Australian education that calls for an overhaul in education funding was greeted with a lukewarm reception by the government.
READ MOREGonski: simple, sensible model for a terrified govt
The response to the Gonski review into schools funding shows Labor has lost any appetite for making good the damage inflicted by the Howard government’s SES model.
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Gonski proposes school funding overhaul
The Gonski education funding review has proposed a significant overhaul of school funding to a federal government that is deeply worried about being seen to remove funding from private schools.
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