Essays & Reportage
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Books & Arts
26 October 2023
A consummate account of Australian universities stops short of exploring the working lives of academics
National Affairs
18 August 2023
Successive reviews of school education have promised a brighter future, but how many of them have gone back to see what went wrong last time?
Essays & Reportage
19 July 2023
A long-forgotten experiment throws light on the challenges facing Australian education in the 2020s
Books & Arts
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
National Affairs
19 April 2023
Parental choice or equitable access? There’s a way of reconciling the two
National Affairs
7 February 2023
The rising number of selective government schools is harming other students. But could those schools become part of a better solution?
Essays & Reportage
19 October 2022
Three new Productivity Commission reports highlight big problems in schooling and school reform — and in the commission’s own thinking
National Affairs
14 October 2022
A grown-up conversation about how we fund better services is long overdue
National Affairs
6 September 2022
One big, vital issue was missing from the Jobs and Skills Summit
National Affairs
6 September 2022
The education revolution failed — and so did its way of thinking
Books & Arts
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
Books & Arts
10 August 2021
Has business changed the culture of childcare?
Books & Arts
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
National Affairs
18 February 2021
Good intentions won’t solve the problem of Australia’s increasingly segregated school system
National Affairs
25 November 2020
A budget for Covid recovery ventures into contentious territory
National Affairs
2 September 2020
It’s time to recognise the multiplier effect of investing in early childhood education
National Affairs
11 August 2020
Adrian Piccoli’s plan to fully fund non-government schools would reduce educational inequality
National Affairs
22 June 2020
Changes to university fees are just the latest example of successive governments preferring to pick winners than trust markets
National Affairs
9 April 2020
A new settlement might just appeal to Coalition supporters, and to Labor’s
Essays & Reportage
9 April 2020
The success of Canada’s education system can help us rethink our own
Summer season
16 March 2020
No longer can non-government schools be said to be saving taxpayer dollars
International
24 February 2020
In key areas, America’s performance is slipping compared to its peers
From the archive
24 January 2020
The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim
Books & Arts
12 December 2019
Books | Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Essays & Reportage
9 December 2019
Only fifteen minutes from Parliament House, four Canberra schools reveal the growing segregation in Australian education — and how government policy is at its heart
Books & Arts
3 December 2019
Another bad PISA report suggests that Australia has not learned the basic lesson: school reform won’t work in the absence of major structural change
Essays & Reportage
22 October 2019
Can a successful social investment model be used in aged care and elsewhere?
Essays & Reportage
15 October 2019
Is an opportunity being lost in the midst of the Chinese student boom?
National Affairs
1 October 2019
Uncertain goals and doubts about effectiveness have prompted a major reappraisal