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The Institute of Public Affairs examines education policy from the principle that competition and choice is as effective at ensuring quality as it is in other Australian sectors. In primary, secondary and tertiary education, the need for the application of these principles is clear.
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Old-school ideas not on the money
The Gonski report on school funding follows in the path of every other government report on schooling of the past 40 years. It identifies the...
Market lessons from the financial crisis
The lesson of the global financial crisis is that freer markets work and are vital to address our current local challenges. At the heart of the...
National curriculum: Labor's big failure
Less than two months after the Rudd government took power, education minister Julia Gillard announced her national curriculum, and announced it...
West's history not complete without reference to Christianity
Julia Gillard's declaration over the weekend that she would like the Bible taught in schools seems odd, given she's Australia's most prominent...
Unmaking history
March may seem a little early to give an award for 2011 's silliest contribution to public debate in Australia, but surely, Monash University...
National Curriculum gets our history badly wrong
Julia Gillard began the development and implementation of the national curriculum as minister for education in the somewhat happier days of the...
Christianity has role in learning
The draft national curriculum for history opened an exciting prospect. Here was a chance, I thought, to defend the honour of Christianity amid the...
Words must turn into action on free trade
Craig Emerson's excellent speech leading the directionless Gillard Government toward a new free trade revolution are welcome words, but only if he...
Set our universities free
Julia Gillard's government gets easily distracted. The big issues for her this week have been things like gay marriage, sport on television and the...
Sum of all fears for non-government school system
The new Labor-Green dominated Government has magnified the deep uncertainties already being felt by Australia's non-government schools over...
