School leaver


Unskilled and over-educated: a plan for worse outcomes

Forcing students who gain no benefit from additional formal education through extra years of schooling or training is pointless, writes Jeremy Sammut.

Dear Oz op-ed page, please stop the Pravda treatment

Instead of socialist parties running sprawling newspapers with open-ended debate going off in all sorts of tangents, they should have one which expounded their line and their line only. Thus was Pravda born. Which brings us to the op-ed page of The Australian, writes Guy Rundle.