The Girls Academy Program aims to overcome the barriers that prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls from completing their education, entering the workforce, reaching their full potential and positively contributing to their communities. The evaluation examined the program’s relevance, effectiveness, impact, efficiency, sustainability, barriers and enablers and governance and management to inform the program’s...

Social sciences are the fields of research on, and knowledge about, society. They are deeply connected and embedded in our social systems and structures. This publication provides a compact guide to the trends, challenges and opportunities impacting Australian social science, to facilitate system-wide planning for a stronger social science ecosystem.

Connected Beginnings (CB) integrates early childhood, health and family support services with schools in disadvantaged Indigenous communities to prepare children for school. The process evaluation found CB effectively supports service integration through community-driven approaches, wider service connections and dual Department funding.

This publication is an edited version of Noel Pearson’s speech at the Centre for Independent Studies event ‘Scaling up success in majority Indigenous schools’, held in Sydney on 18 May 2021.

Indigenous educational disadvantage remains among the most pressing and persistent public policy challenges in Australia. This research examines sources and extent of Indigenous educational disadvantage and proposes how policymakers can better meet the ambition of closing the gap.