The current and future landscape for tertiary education funding
26th July 2017
Tertiary education in Australia is at a crossroads with major decisions currently in train.
Reforms needed to better engage school students
17th July 2017
Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education finds that for the 2014 group of 24-year-olds who weren’t earning or learning.
What Australia could learn from Hong Kong and Singapore about rebuilding VET
29th June 2017
Australia has gone from VET leader and innovator in the Asia-Pacific region, to scandal and cutbacks. Professor Peter Noonan from the Mitchell Institute writes how Asia has leaped ahead.
Australia is still lagging on some aspects of early childhood education
23rd June 2017
The OECD’s latest Starting Strong report provides an update on early childhood education opportunities across the developed world, and a fresh insight into how Australian children are faring.
Australian HE reforms need further vetting
22nd June 2017
Demand-driven funding in higher education but not vocational education will distort both provision and student choice, says Peter Noonan.
Leaving school early means you’re likely never to return to study & training in adult life
15th June 2017
One in eight Australians will never get Year 12 qualifications. Some make up the one in eight Australians who will be disengaged from full-time work, study or training for most of their lives.
VET funding – more than a Band-Aid required
19th April 2017
We are seeing increasing public focus on future levels of VET funding in Australia in anticipation of a reduction in Commonwealth funding for VET in 2017-18.
