Schools
Report
Review of funding for schooling: final report
This report on a review chaired by David Gonski – known as the 'Gonski Review' – is the culmination of the first significant schools funding review since the Whitlam Government.
Report
Youth and digital media: from credibility to information quality
This paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation. Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework and by looking at levels of new literacies...
Report
Catching up: learning from the best school systems in East Asia
Today’s centre of high performance in school education is East Asia. Four of the world's five highest-performing systems are Hong Kong, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore, according to OECD’s 2009 PISA assessments of students. In Shanghai, the average 15-year old mathematics student is performing at a level two to three years above his or her counterpart...
Report
Key data on education in Europe 2012
This paper combines statistical data and qualitative information to describe the organisation and functioning of education systems in Europe. The report is organised into seven subject-based chapters entitled Context, Structures, Participation, Resources, Teachers and Management Staff, Educational Processes and Qualification Levels and Transition to Employment. The summary at the beginning of the report familiarises readers...
Report
Schools, Australia, 2011
This is an annual publication of data on schools, students and in-school staff involved in the provision, or administration, of primary and secondary education, in government and non-government schools, for all Australian states and territories. The publication also includes derived measures of student engagement and ratios of full-time equivalent (FTE) students to FTE teaching staff...