Why do the world's top performing school systems perform so much better than mosts others? And why do some educational reforms succeed spectacularly while most others fail? This McKinsey report looks at the questions and finds answers from around the world.

The Leading Australia's Schools Program is designed to provide significant, leading-edge professional learning for school principals, with particular though not exclusive priority given to those in the early years of the principalship. The Program design focuses on improving the knowledge and skills of Australia's school leaders and increasing their capacity to lead their schools effectively...

A Study into the Teaching of Geography in Years 3-10 discusses current practice in the teaching of geography in Australian schools and factors which affect the quality of teaching and learning of geography. It also investigates the fundamentals that every Australian student should know in the subject before they complete Year 10 and provides a...

This policy paper argues that Australia must develop a national and transparent model of school funding based on comprehensible measures of need applying equally across the sectors if the funding debate in this country is to rise above a sterile ideological battle.

This report outlines the results of the Staff in Australia's Schools survey, which gathered information from over 13,000 secondary and primary school teachers and leaders across the country. It aimed to address key gaps in the data available to characterise the teaching profession to support workforce planning. The project also involved extensive consultations with key...