The performance of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) regarding transparency is not currently meeting its potential. In August 2010, selected faculty and researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet; Society Harvard University (referred to as the “Berkman team”) initiated an independent, exploratory study analysing ICANN’s decision-making processes and communications with its...

This report extends Becta’s enquiries into the ways in which digital technologies are supporting learning. It looks in detail at the learning practices mediated by ICT in nine secondary schools in which ICT for learning is well embedded. The project proposes a broader perspective on the notion of ‘impact’ that is rather different from a...

Innovation, creativity and passion are alive and well in schools throughout Australia. However these are increasingly constrained in a command-and-control approach that is leading to an unprecedented level of centralisation, standardisation and bureaucratisation.

This paper develops a model to estimate the value of returning to a university degree and the causal effect of a university education on earnings in China. Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pledge to ‘Close the Gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health outcomes was perceived as a long overdue landmark, but its achievement will require more than yet another government strategy or more funding. The Rudd government is doing what previous administrations have always done — throwing more and more money at the...