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Gonski Review

The Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools was established by the Federal Government in July 2017 to examine evidence and make recommendations on

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Over-funding of private schools

This article by Save Our Schools’ Trevor Cobbold was published in May 2022, during the federal election campaign. It outlines how private schools have been massively over-funded at the expense of public schools, and how

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Get Gonski back on track

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Gonski Report, Trevor Cobbold of Save Our Schools gave a speech to the Schools Funding Conference in February 2022. This article is a revised version of the speech.

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Inequality and education outcomes

“When colleagues overseas ask what I think about Australia’s school system, I tell them that it does offer world-class education, but not for everyone.” That’s the opening sentence of a recent article in the Guardian

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PISA: a fair test of education quality?

The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is often used as an indicator of how well an education system is performing. For example, in March 2021 Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge used PISA results

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Inequity in education: research report

A research report published by the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education shows a strong link between socio-economic advantage and high student achievement. The paper, by Dr Jenny Chesters and Prof. Anne Daly, is

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Resource disadvantage of public schools

Save Our Schools reported in May 2021 on the growing resource disadvantage of public schools, compared to private schools. According to the SOS report: Figures recently published by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

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Gonski Review

The Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools was established by the Federal Government in July 2017 to examine evidence and make recommendations on how school funding should be used to improve school performance

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