• 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.

NAPLAN can ensure better outcomes
NAPLAN can ensure better outcomes
Glenn FaheySeptember 3, 2020Ideas@theCentre

Parents are increasingly aware that schools need better assessment and accountability if there’s to be...

Don’t expel school accountability
Glenn FaheyAugust 27, 2020Ideas@theCentre

This year’s abandonment of NAPLAN could inflict an enduring blow to school accountability. The literacy...

Curriculum ignores history value
Fiona MuellerAugust 20, 2020Ideas@theCentre

Twenty-first century history is being made each day. The news is full of statue-toppling anarchists...

Will generation lockdown write good history?
Fiona MuellerAugust 18, 2020Spectator

Twenty-first century history is being made each day. The news is full of statue-toppling anarchists...

Why stop at ending HECS-HELP for failing students? Give the universities some skin in the game
Steven SchwartzAugust 16, 2020Spectator

Some students have accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt without obtaining a...

Give low-income parents a school choice
Glenn Fahey, Blaise JosephAugust 13, 2020Ideas@theCentre

We have to stop using private schools as a scapegoat for everything wrong with Australian...

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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