The radical overhaul of Australia’s preschool sector will require better legislating for the sector and increasing the number of early childhood education teachers, according to this policy paper. The paper summarises the current structure of preschool in Australian in contemplation of major policy shifts announced by the Commonwealth. It follows a Council of Australian Governments...

The author argues that an “unfair and dysfunctional” funding system put in place by the Howard government that should be scrapped. The report also finds that: • by the end of the current schools funding agreement in 2012/13, private schools will have received $47 billion and public schools $35 billion from the Rudd Government for...

This report commissioned by the Equity in Education Alliance seeks to quantify in dollars the extent to which the Victorian community service organisations, including emergency relief providers, assist disadvantaged families to meet school education expenses. This costs data supports the argument that the cost of education has been shifted from the state to the individual...

This edition of Australian Education Review explores the goals of Australian education and of how schools should prepare young people for work and life. This book brings together two stories: one relating to the ways in which young people’s worlds have changed radically over the last three or four decades; the other relating to the...

The Queensland Ed-LinQ initiative is a statewide initiative funded through the Queensland Plan for Mental Health 2007 - 2017 and administered by Queensland Health. It works strategically at a state and district level to improve linkages between the education sector, the primary care sector and the mental health sector. It aims to support these sectors...