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Quality school education is vital for individual potential and a healthy society. All children should have access to an education that is responsive to their needs as well as upholding high academic standards. CIS’s research focus is on policies that improve the quality of teaching and student outcomes.

Education policy should be based on evidence and worthwhile goals, not on borrowed fads
Fiona MuellerAugust 31, 2019The Australian

This week has seen the annual commotion around Australia’s standardised testing regime, the National Assessment...

Inquiry into measurement and outcome-based funding in New South Wales schools
Glenn FaheyAugust 31, 2019

The Portfolio Committee on Education in the NSW Legislative Council has set up an inquiry...

Choice a solution for equality
Glenn FaheyAugust 30, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

With all the talk of the alleged gross educational inequality of late, one would be...

We’ve set lower bars, not raised the results
Blaise JosephAugust 28, 2019The Australian

It’s the ongoing national dis­appointment. Results haven’t ­consistently improved since NAP­LAN began in 2008, while...

Unis’ Chinese ‘cash cows’
Salvatore BabonesAugust 23, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Australia’s universities are taking a multi-billion-dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk, high-reward...

Sydney universities hiding from the facts about Chinese students
Salvatore BabonesAugust 21, 2019The Sydney Morning Herald

One of the great pleasures of teaching at a top global university like the University...

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