• 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.

Australia and the Asian Ascendancy: Why Upskilling is Not Necessary to Reap the Rewards
Benjamin HerscovitchFebruary 19, 2013IA137

Australia’s Asian embrace: Australia’s exports to Asia are almost triple its exports to the rest...

Victorian revival highlights lost ground on child welfare
Jeremy SammutFebruary 15, 2013

Compulsory school attendance was introduced in Australia during the Victorian era in the later-nineteenth century....

Language policy gone loco
Benjamin HerscovitchFebruary 1, 2013

For every story of sovereign debt risks in Europe and US fiscal woes, there is...

Students should seize the day, not the decade
Greg MelleuishJanuary 14, 2013The Australian

IT seems we in the West have sleepwalked into an entirely new type of human...

Degrees lose their cachet
Steven SchwartzJanuary 7, 2013Australian Financial Review

The plumber took 10 minutes to unplug the toilet and then presented his customer with...

Sustainability of Indigenous Communities
Ron Staples, Sara Hudson, Wesley AirdDecember 20, 2012OP127

Social indicators of Indigenous disadvantage prove that the orthodox methods of delivering services to Indigenous...

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