• 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.

‘Progressive’ education policy: a cure worse than the disease
Glenn FaheyDecember 13, 2019Spectator

Despite the now indisputable evidence that Australia’s education system has been led down a deleterious...

Why the Australian curriculum is failing our schools
Fiona MuellerDecember 10, 2019The Daily Telegraph

Those of us who qualified as teachers somewhere around the Jurassic period can recognise a...

Teacher training is the answer to improving student results
Blaise JosephDecember 9, 2019Financial Review

In my teacher education degree four years ago, just one out of 14 courses was...

PISA results highlight decades of incompetence in Australian education
Simon CowanDecember 7, 2019Canberra Times

The latest PISA results should be a wake-up call to everyone associated with education policy...

School equity at expense of excellence, efficiency
Glenn FaheyDecember 6, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Put to the test in terms of the education’s systems ‘3 Es’ — excellence, equity,...

Our failing school system doesn’t need more money
Glenn FaheyDecember 5, 2019The Spectator

Put to the test in terms of the education’s systems 3 Es — excellence, equity,...

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