• Education

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.

While our schools coach kids in social activism, literacy takes a back seat
Glenn FaheyOctober 27, 2020The Australian

School students are being groomed for social activism while too many are still functionally illiterate...

Quantity ≠ quality
Glenn FaheyOctober 23, 2020Ideas@theCentre

The class of 2020 began HSC exams this week — but not all will benefit...

Our clever country deserves better than two-speed education
Glenn FaheyOctober 18, 2020Canberra Times

AUSTRALIA’S two-speed education system has been tolerated for too long – with recent research showing...

What women want out of childcare
Fiona MuellerOctober 14, 2020Financial Review

Labor has made cheaper childcare a centrepiece of its response to the federal budget, saying...

Closures undermined education
Glenn FaheyOctober 9, 2020Ideas@theCentre

New CIS research confirms the breadth of educational damage of school closures — especially troubling...

Parents’ perspectives on home-based learning in the covid-19 pandemic
Glenn Fahey, Blaise JosephSeptember 30, 2020AP15

School closures during the covid-19 pandemic temporarily shifted schooling from the classroom to the home....

Submission to NAPLAN Reporting Review 2019
Blaise Joseph, Jennifer Buckingham OAMMarch 18, 2019

NAPLAN is a key element of government transparency and accountability There is very little evidence...

Submission to the Senate Education and Employment Committee Inquiry into The Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017
Blaise JosephMay 24, 2017CIS Submission
Productivity Commission Inquiry Into Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Submission in response to issues paper
Trisha JhaJuly 1, 2016CIS Submission

The Human Services Inquiry is ‘examining policy options in the human services sector that incorporate...

Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Education Evidence Base: Submission in response to the draft report
Jennifer Buckingham OAMMay 1, 2016CIS Submission

The Review of Education Evidence (Draft Report)—the ‘Draft Report’—provides a useful, up-to-date overview of the...

Submission to the Parliament of NSW Standing Committee on State Development: Inquiry into economic development in Aboriginal communities
Sara HudsonFebruary 12, 2016CIS Submission

In seeking to improve Indigenous economic development outcomes it is important to recognise that high...

Submission to the National Commission of Audit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Stephen Kirchner, Trisha JhaApril 1, 2014T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance...

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