Public education


IPA: What’s wrong with a few Golden Arches in schools?

Australians should welcome the sponsorship of companies like McDonald’s for education programs in our cash-starved schools, says the Institute of Public Affairs’ Carolyn Popp. No-one’s forcing Big Macs down kids’ throats.

Lowbottom High Diaries: Student refugees of the GFC

Casualties of the economic shipwreck are washing up at the entrance of Lowbottom in increasing numbers, writes Trevor Diogenes.

The NSW state school renaissance

The NSW middle class has taken swift steps to ease mounting financial stress by pulling their kids out of private schools — and the public system isn’t coping, writes Alex Mitchell.