This report considers the implications of the federal government's proposed changes to funding arrangements for targeted assistance in Indigenous education, as contained in the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2004.

The considerable debate since 1996 about Commonwealth expenditure on schools has been driven by policy changes that have significantly restructured Commonwealth funding and influenced the relative funding share between the government and non-government schools sectors. In this Research Note Marilyn Harrington briefly explains these policy changes and the trends in Commonwealth funding for schools since...

This report presents and analyses a range of statistical information about skills, education and employment trends in Australia’s regions over the period 1991 to 2001.

This ACOSS Senate Inquiry submission finds that the Government's higher education proposals fail to address the problem of student poverty and are likely to lead to fewer students from low income families attending university. The government's proposed scholarships are welcome but do not outweigh the negative aspects of the package. The submission quotes from recent...

Opponents of university fees have linked declining fertility to student debt, to justify lower charges under the Higher Education Scheme (HECS). Andrew Norton argues that HECS has no impact on fertility - university educated people have fewer children, whether they are paying HECS or not. HECS cuts constitute inefficient policy, for they would reward equally...