• 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.

Schools must retain hiring rights
Robert ForsythOctober 19, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

In the hasty and overheated reaction to the leaked recommendations of the Ruddock review, pressure...

Labor preschool plan fails to add up on many levels
Eugenie JosephOctober 12, 2018DAILY TELEGRAPH

  Australian parents should be sceptical of Labor’s new policy to extend universal access to...

Freedom Charters will Protect Free Speech on University Campuses
Jeremy SammutOctober 12, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The most concerning aspect of the current debate about free speech in Australian universities has...

Q&A focuses on difference, not agreement
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 12, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The ABC’s Q&A program is a curious beast. Even when there is broad agreement among...

Off with the campus gag: give all opinions a voice
Jeremy SammutOctober 8, 2018The Australian

Last month, riot police were called to the University of Sydney to break up a...

University Freedom Charters: How best to protect free speech on Australian campuses
Jeremy SammutOctober 7, 2018PP10

This POLICY Paper recommends how and why a ‘university freedom charters’ policy that is backed...

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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