Since the educational experiences of Aboriginal Australians are often framed from a ‘deficit’ perspective, whereby the failures of Indigenous people to engage with the mainstream educational system are seen as the ‘problem’, an alternative approach to Indigenous early childhood education discourse is preferable. This alternative approach highlights the strengths that many Aboriginal children possess when...

This evaluation assessed the extent to which the Samoa School Fee Grant Scheme had reduced financial barriers to primary school enrolment and had increased retention, whether improved learning outcomes had been achieved through an enhanced quality of education, and if school performance had improved against the Minimum Service Standards.

The results of this survey, run annually, demonstrate that principals and deputy/assistant principals experience far higher prevalence of offensive behaviour at work each year than the general population, and they collectively score below the general population average for wellbeing.

Provides a wealth of data and information that are used by schools, governments and education authorities to inform decisions about the education of young Australians. Summary The National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests are conducted in May for all students across Australia in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Each year, over one million...

The ASG Parents Report Card investigates the state of education in Australia from parents’ perspectives. The ASG Parents Report Card measured parents’ perceptions of the state of education in the two countries using three indexes: the Aspirations Index; the Educational Resources Index, and the Learning Resources Index. Undertaken by ASG and the Faculty of Education...