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CIS research into school funding aims to ensure that the taxpayers’ money is spent wisely and on policy and initiatives that provide genuine education outcomes for students and the wider Australian community.

Education policy must mature beyond calls for more money
Glenn FaheyFebruary 3, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Education policy must mature from being dominated by demands for more funding and instead focus...

What Australia must do to lift flatlining student scores
Glenn FaheyDecember 6, 2023AFR

While Australian students have scored a mixed report card in the latest round of international...

Regional and remote schools funding review should not be ignored
Scott PrasserDecember 6, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

Parents, teachers and students in regional and remote areas should be concerned that most of...

NAPLAN dive shows funding splurge is no fix for learning woes
Glenn FaheyAugust 23, 2023THE AUSTRALIAN

The NAPLAN results just released reveal a significant underperforming tail, which means school systems must...

Uni shake-up mustn’t reheat the Gonski fallacy
Glenn FaheyJuly 26, 2023AFR

A new Gonski-style funding model for universities will not improve higher education outcomes, but will...

Vested interests thwart school reform
Glenn FaheyMay 24, 2023AFR

A year into Labor’s administration, Education Minister Jason Clare has a unique opportunity to transform...

Revisiting Indigenous Education
Helen HughesApril 9, 2009PM94

Literacy and numeracy of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in remote Australia have not improved...

Fixing Prices: Why Vouchers Won’t Work While Governments Set Fees
Andrew NortonFebruary 11, 2009IA105

In December 2008, the federal government received the Review of Australian Higher Education: Final Report,...

Building Prosperity
Wolfgang KasperNovember 30, 0001

In this special publication, Wolfgang Kasper reviews Australia’s economic development over the past two decades...

Gulliver Unbound: Can American Rule of World?
Joseph JoffeNovember 30, 0001OP85

Twenty first century America is the Gulliver of our times. It dominates the international sphere...

Swap obstacles for teachers
Jennifer Buckingham OAMNovember 30, 0001The Australian

We need new methods to make maths teaching more appealing to the right type of...

Lessons from across the Tasman where policy strength has brought economic growth
November 30, 0001The National Business Review

A new political leader is promising some radical ideas. Massive tax cuts, reduced government spending...

Not bedfellows, but a political attraction
Tanveer AhmedNovember 30, 0001

As a new year begins, the combination of Saddam Hussein's execution, the annual pilgrimage to...

Why Kevin Rudd’s ‘security community’ will annoy Asia
John LeeNovember 30, 0001National Business Review

New Zealand places a lot of emphasis on multilateralism and a rules-based foreign policy. Last...

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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...

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