The student support service program enhances the capacity of Victorian government schools to meet the additional learning and wellbeing needs of children and young people through the provision of access to school and community specialist support. Student support services staff comprise psychologists, guidance officers, speech pathologists, social workers, visiting teachers and other allied health professionals...

This paper assembles some evidence on developments in investment by incumbent and alternative telecommunications operators during the period 2000-2005. The quality of data on investment is not in general sufficient to clearly differentiate between investment by new entrants and investment by incumbents. Definitional problems also exist in that the players in communication markets are no...

This paper examines the Rudd Government’s funding decisions for schools since the May 2008 Budget and the analysis in the author's earlier report Reviewing the evidence: Issues in Commonwealth funding of government and non-government schools in the Howard and Rudd years (August, 2008). It does so by examining the funding allocations for schools made through...

Priority Schools Programs support government schools serving the highest densities of low socio-economic status families in New South Wales and comprise the Priority Schools Funding Program and the Priority Action Schools Program. Priority Schools Programs resources include: direct grants to schools staffing supplementation to improve the ratio of staff to students consultancy support through targeted...

Currently, over 16,000 Indigenous students and 13,000 non-Indigenous students located in 260 Australian schools are involved in an Indigenous language program. More than 80 different Indigenous languages are taught. This project sought to present practice which would strengthen the quality of Indigenous language programs in schools. The report consists of a literature review, a mapping...