The Scan Main Edition 19 April 2013
#114 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Queensland TAFE Inc As recommended in the Roche report on Queensland TAFE, the Newman...
View ArticleStates urged to avoid Gonski trade-offs
Australian Financial Review | 29 April 2013 The agreement between NSW and the Commonwealth governments on the Gonski education reforms may come at the expense the TAFE sector in NSW, with premier...
View ArticleThe impact of school academic quality on low socioeconomic status students
NCVER | 20 August 2013 This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to investigate the impact of academic school quality on student outcomes. A companion paper by...
View ArticleLatest PISA results ‘cause for concern’
ACER News | 3 December 2013 Australian mathematics and reading achievement in decline | Significant gaps in student achievement by gender, Indigenous status, location and wealth PISA...
View ArticleFactCheck: is Australian education highly equitable?
The Conversation | 5 December 2013 “The OECD says that we are a high equity nation in terms of our students… I don’t believe there is an equity problem in Australia.” – Education Minister...
View ArticleThe first School in the Cloud opens
2 January 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Located inside George Stephenson High School in Killingworth, England, this one-room learning lab is a space...
View ArticleFocus to shift to school trade training
The Australian | 7 March 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The Abbott government will encourage more students to undertake school-based apprenticeships and move away from the...
View ArticleVictoria’s “lunch club” scandal
The Age | 3 May 2015 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Readers outside Victoria will not know much about this scandal unfolding before the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption (IBAC)....
View ArticleChristmas carols banned…..?
Bah! Humbug….. The Australian | 23 December 2015 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… In those years in which Labor is in office in Victoria, you can be sure News Limited will run a story...
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