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Gonski – the uncertainty continues
11:10 PM 31 August 2011.
Category:
Funding
Four initial reports to the Gonski Review fail to deliver any concrete direction regarding future school funding. Given other combative forces impacting on the Gillard Government increased politicisation of the funding debate appears inevitable. Read More...
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Another rushed policy debacle avoided
10:33 PM 09 August 2011.
Category:
Political
Rushed implementation of the national school curriculum has been delayed by the NSW government. Canberra is unhappy because it challenges the predictably flawed policy implementation pattern which has symbolised the Rudd and Gillard governments since 2007. Read More...
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Analysing Gonski
02:02 AM 02 August 2011.
Category:
Political, Funding
Critics of recurrent funding to the non-government school sector seek to selectively influence decisions from the Gonski Review. Some of their assumptions should be challenged to create a balance debate on this contentious government issue. Read More...
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Opening the books not the solution
12:01 AM 01 August 2011.
Category:
Funding
Calls by The Sydney Morning Herald for independent schools to reveal their asset resources accentuate school ideological differences and contribute nothing to improving education quality for all students. Read More...
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Balancing the scales of debate
12:41 AM 28 July 2011.
Category:
Funding
Independent school recurrent funding will remain a media pre-occupation partly because its critics will ensure its continuing notoriety. Many pertinent facts surrounding the issue remain hidden in the emotive arguments of school profits and sector funding inequity. Read More...
All for an alarmist headline
03:47 AM 26 July 2011.
Category:
Political
Without considering the combined recurrent funding allocations from state and federal governments to the private and public school sectors the public’s understanding of funds apportionment to each sector will continue to be distorted by unions and funding critics. Register to read full story...
Forecasting a funding future
12:30 AM 20 July 2011.
Category:
Funding
While the much anticipated Gonski Review into school funding could provide the Government with ammunition to change recurrent funding to the independent school sector other considerations will impact on Ms Gillard’s electoral ability and political motivation to trigger major funding changes.
Those considerations hinge on a fundamental tenet of politics – her ability to gain re-election in 2013.
In the foreseeable social and economic climate that possibility is looking increasingly unlikely.
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An exercise in subterfuge
01:07 AM 11 July 2011.
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uncategorized
The final Taskforce Report on the BER continued to minimise responsibility to the Gillard Government while wasting an opportunity to refocus on student education need. Register to read full story...