• 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.

Teacher education degrees should face scrutiny
Blaise JosephJuly 5, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Australian teachers are underprepared for the classroom compared to those in other countries, according to...

Demand driven uni model
Glenn FaheyJune 28, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Universities have been admitting too many students, a greater proportion are now struggling, their debts...

Why are school standards still falling?
Blaise JosephJune 26, 2019The Spectator

Despite all the policy differences in the election, there was little to distinguish between the...

Modelling the language of mercy
Fiona MuellerJune 21, 2019Quadrant Online

A federal election throws up the good, the bad and the ugly as individuals compete...

Kudos to NSW for phonics check trial
Blaise JosephJune 21, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The NSW budget included some very welcome education news: a trial of the Year 1...

No, school choice does not cause ‘segregation’
Blaise JosephJune 7, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The mental gymnastics displayed by some people in order to blame school choice for Australia’s...

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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