Victorian Education Minister Fails in His Response to Criticism of Funding Guarantee for Private Schools

Posted on Wednesday March 4, 2015

The claim of the Victorian Education Minister that Victorian Government funding of private schools is based on need is highly misleading, even disingenuous. >> Read on...

Victorian Govt Betrays Gonski Needs-Based Funding Principle

Posted on Monday March 2, 2015

The Victorian Labor Government has legislated to ensure that funding increases for public schools will automatically flow on in part to private schools without regard to need. It breaches the Gonski principle of funding according to need. >> Read on...

UN Education Expert Calls on Governments to Stand Firm Against Privatisation of Education

Posted on Friday February 27, 2015

UN expert calls on governments to oppose privatising basic education and to strengthen their public systems to ensure free, quality, basic education for all. >> Read on...

Equity or Privilege in Education?

Posted on Thursday February 26, 2015

The future of education policy in Australia is about whether to improve equity in education or compound privilege. Full implementation of the Gonski funding plan would deliver increased equity. >> Read on...

Closing Achievement Gaps Increases Economic Growth and Reduces Income Inequality

Posted on Sunday February 22, 2015

Study says that closing the achievement gap between rich and poor would increased economic growth and government revenue and reduce income inequality. >> Read on...

Parents Are Being Charged for ‘Free’ Education in Victoria

Posted on Wednesday February 18, 2015

The Victorian Auditor-General has found that parents in public schools are being charged for items and activities that should be free. >> Read on...

Massive Increases in Govt Funding for Private Schools

Posted on Sunday February 15, 2015

New figures show that governments have massively favoured private schools with funding increases far above those for public schools. >> Read on...

OECD Says Australia Should Reduce Education Inequality

Posted on Monday February 9, 2015

OECD report says that disadvantaged students in Australia face severe educational shortfalls. It says that Australia should act to improve equity in education. >> Read on...

School Autonomy Allows Schools to Fall Through the Gap

Posted on Thursday February 5, 2015

A second report by the UK House of Commons says that school autonomy in England is letting schools fall through the gap. >> Read on...

No Evidence that Independent Public Schools in England Raise Standards

Posted on Wednesday February 4, 2015

A UK House of Commons report on academy schools, England’s version of independent public schools, says there is no evidence that they improve school results. >> Read on...

Funding Increases Benefit Disadvantaged Students

Posted on Sunday February 1, 2015

Increased school funding brings large improvements for low income students in high school graduation rates and educational attainment, wages, family income, and reductions in adult poverty according to a new study. >> Read on...

New Figures Show that Government Funding Increases Favour Private Schools

Posted on Wednesday January 28, 2015

New figures show that government funding increases for Catholic and Independent schools have outstripped funding increases for public schools since 2009. >> Read on...

What Do Parents Get for a Costly Private School Education?

Posted on Monday January 26, 2015

Parents paying up to $500,000 to put their children through private schools do not get better educational outcomes. >> Read on...

Open Letter on Testing by Diane Ravitch

Posted on Wednesday January 21, 2015

An open letter by Diane Ravitch to the US Senate calls for annual standardised testing to be dropped in US schools. >> Read on...

Media Release: Public Schools are the Equal of Private Schools

Posted on Sunday January 18, 2015

A new analysis of school NAPLAN test results published by Save Our Schools shows that the results in public schools are just as good as those in private schools. >> Read on...

Public Schools Do Just as Well as Private Schools in NAPLAN

Posted on Saturday January 17, 2015

A new research paper from Save Our Schools shows that the often-presumed superior test results of private schools compared to public schools is a myth. Public, Catholic and Independent schools with a similar socio-economic composition have very similar results in nearly all states. >> Read on...

Charter Schools’ Promise Unfulfilled

Posted on Wednesday January 14, 2015

A new charter school study shows that independent public schools do not deliver on their promise of higher student achievement. >> Read on...

ABS Study Shows Big Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in Qld

Posted on Sunday January 11, 2015

Study shows a large achievement gap between high and low SES students in Queensland. >> Read on...

Low SES Students Do Better at Uni than High SES students

Posted on Monday January 5, 2015

A new study shows that students from low SES schools have higher grades in first year university than students from high SES schools and that public schools students achieve just as well as private school students. >> Read on...

“Markets Don’t Work in Education” Shockwave

Posted on Sunday December 14, 2014

Markets in education don’t work according to a leading US research economist responsible for many studies on charter schools. >> Read on...

Parents Are Becoming More Disillusioned With NAPLAN

Posted on Thursday December 11, 2014

There were record withdrawal rates from the NAPLAN tests across Australia and in most states/territories this year. It suggests that increasing numbers of parents realise that NAPLAN is not compulsory. >> Read on...

The Success of East Asian Students is Explained More by Family Attitudes Than Differences in Teaching

Posted on Tuesday December 2, 2014

A new study shows that differences in teaching between East Asian countries and Australia are not a critical factor in the differences in student results. Instead, it shows that differences in family attitudes to education are the key factor. >> Read on...

Closing Small Schools May be Ineffective and Inefficient

Posted on Sunday November 23, 2014

An OECD review of studies of school size shows that small schools may provide better school outcomes for students, especially at the primary school level and for lower socio-economic status students, and that closing small schools is not as cost-effective as often assumed. >> Read on...

More Funding for Low Achieving Students Improves School Outcomes

Posted on Sunday November 16, 2014

A new academic study shows that additional funding for low achieving students significantly increases schooling outcomes. It provides additional support for the full implementation of the Gonski funding plan. >> Read on...

Education Policy is Based on Myths According to Leading Academic

Posted on Monday November 3, 2014

A leading education academic says that education policy in Australia is based on myths. >> Read on...

UN Report Condemns Privatisation of Education

Posted on Thursday October 30, 2014

A report to the UN General Assembly warns that the rapid expansion of private education is increasingly replacing public education and exacerbating inequalities in societies. >> Read on...

Education Chief Says Market-Based Policies are Ineffective

Posted on Wednesday October 29, 2014

The head of Australia’s leading education research body, the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), has questioned the effectiveness of teacher and school incentives as a school improvement strategy. >> Read on...

Private Schools Are No Better Than Public Schools

Posted on Friday October 24, 2014

A new academic study shows that private schools are no better than public schools after taking account of the socio-economic background of students and schools. This is the fourth study in the last year to show no difference between public and private schools. >> Read on...

OECD Says Australia is ‘Low Equity’ in Educational Resources

Posted on Monday October 20, 2014

A new PISA in Focus published by the OECD shows that the gap in educational resources between advantaged and disadvantaged schools in Australia is the fifth largest in the OECD and one of the largest of all the 65 countries participating in PISA. >> Read on...

SOS Supplementary Submission on Low SES Funding Loadings

Posted on Saturday October 18, 2014

A supplementary submission by Save Our Schools to the Federal Government’s review of the low SES funding loadings says that the proposal by Independent Schools Victoria to remove the additional loadings for schools with greater concentrations of low SES students should be rejected. >> Read on...

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