One of four reports commissioned by the Review of Funding for Schooling, this paper compares Australia's education system with international standards. It identifies its strengths and weaknesses and makes recommendations for improvement. Australia’s school system is among the better performing systems in the world. Taken as a national average, our children at age 15 are...

One of four reports commissioned by the Review of Funding for Schooling, this research examines the funding programs for dealing with disadvantaged (language, location, disability, economic) students. This project set out to map the definition of educational need and disadvantage used in Australia by government and non-government schools and systems for funding purposes. This mapping...

Overseen by David Gonski, this review of school's funding explores the best methods by which education can be provided to Australian students, regardless of their wealth. The Review of Funding for Schooling aims to achieve a funding system which is transparent, equitable, financially sustainable and effective in providing an excellent education for all Australian students...

One of four reports commissioned by the Review of Funding for Schooling, this research assesses the funding models for Australian schools. The purpose of Deloitte Access Economics' study is to assist the Review Panel in understanding what constitutes an optimal school funding model from a public policy perspective, through: (i) an analysis of the relationship...

In this report the authors seek to answer the question of whether combining school and work is detrimental or beneficial to a student's school educational performance and labour market outcomes. They find that young people who combine school and work are distributed right across the school population. Results show that individuals can combine school and...