This document offers practical guidance for school leaders based on findings from A review of careers professionals' involvement in schools in the UK. The report explored what the best available recent research tells us about successful careers education, information, advice and guidance (CE/IAG) for supporting all school pupils (i.e. 'universal support') and those who are...

From time to time a decision of the High Court is considered to have major implications for federalism in Australia. The list of such cases includes the Engineers case (1920), the Uniform Tax cases (1942 and 1957), the Tasmanian Dam case (1983), the excise duties decision in Ngo Ngo Ha v NSW (1997), and the...

This paper quantifies the impact of different dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage on Year 12 completion by employing a comparative analysis of one data set that has been used extensively to study this issue – the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) – with another less used data set in this area, the Youth in Focus...

Considerable work has been undertaken over several years to establish primary schools as community hubs in the City of Hume through the Hubs Strategy Group for the Hume Communities for Children Initiative and, more recently, the Supporting Parents Developing Children project. This work has highlighted the need for a primary school community hub toolkit. The...

A literature review on mentoring and supervision of pre-service teachers. The review looks at the current policies, procedures and practices that are designed to support pre-service teachers’ professional experience. These policies, procedures and practices are drawn from initial teacher education providers and the education sectors in Australia, as well as those from professions outside of...