Publications

On 2 July 2014 Reuters’ correspondent Edward Hadas wrote: ‘The fast increase in loans to pay for higher education is a trend that is moving in

While the attached article highlights those features which assist with progressive strength in Victoria, it is tempting to view Queensland as the polar opposite.  Manufacturing was

Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz has said that Australia had “a system that is really a model for the rest of the

The Brisbane Times carried an AAP report on 22 June 2014 that in 2015, previously subsidised courses are expected to incur full fees, as the new

Linda Graham writes in The Conversation (27 June 2014) that ‘a common debate has resurfaced over teacher quality and the quality of teacher education in Australia. This

The Conversation (25.6.2014) carries a report ‘HECS upon you: NATSEM models the real impact of higher uni fees’, by Ben Phillips, Principal Research Fellow, National Centre for

A debate was unleashed this week in the Brisbane Courier-Mail about the merits of including Latin as an optional language in the National Curriculum.  Roger Scott

Adjunct Professor (and TJRyan Research Associate) Paul Rodan writes for ‘Eureka Street’ about the impact of the Federal Government’s higher education policies on lower income groups,

Dr Byrne, in The Conversation (24 February 2014), argues that we ought to provide children with a comprehensive understanding of different religions and non-religious world views

Gonski and the ‘social contract’ Dean Ashenden discusses ‘Mr Gonski and the social contract’, in The Conversation of 23 May 2014, in response to Mr Gonski’s

The text of David Gonski’s address at Melbourne University on 21 May 2014 on the Abbott Government’s Budget response to the Gonski Report.  ‘Leaving the entirety

In November 2013, the Mitchell Institute hosted a discussion with a panel and audience of people who have made a significant contribution to education reforms over previous