Executive summary Australia’s Initial Teacher Education (ITE) sector has been under review for much of the past few decades — …
A shorter path to teaching: Exploring one-year postgraduate qualifications – Executive Summary Australia faces major teacher workforce challenges, especially in …
Katharine Birbalsingh has been described as ‘Britain’s meanest headmistress’ because of her use of detentions and rigorous application of school …
Myths about learning and teaching maths continue to plague classroom practice despite consistent lack of evidence demonstrating positive outcomes for …
This paper examines the impact of changing approaches to teaching history and citizenship on the cultivation of national identity in Australia and the UK.
Children’s mathematical competencies in school impact on their long-term outcomes at work and in general life.
Developing creative and critical thinking is a major priority of educators and policymakers. This is promoted because of popular views that students today require more creativity and critical thinking than past generations.
Policymakers have increasingly looked to improvements in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) as key to overcoming declining education outcomes. The analysis in …
This paper outlines the evidence and scientific reasons that inquiry based learning reduces academic performance. Why inquiry based learning reduces …
Generational decline in student achievement and teacher expertise in writing skills — the poor cousin of reading skills in Australian …
For a nation with such a high percentage of migrants, Australia’s relationship with migration remains very fraught. Of course, we …
One of the intriguing arguments in defence of the Indigenous voice to parliament is the claim that its rejection at …
The NSW budget on September 19 will be the first big policy test of the state’s new Labor government. The …
It came as a nasty surprise to almost everyone 15 years ago this Friday, when Lehman Brothers failed and the …
Degrowth push to abandon capitalism, growth and innovation in the name of ecological purity would condemn us all to poverty. …
Chris Kenny’s piece “Busting eight myths of the No Campaign” in Inquirer last weekend read like a laundry list of …
Politicians can’t live without experts. Faced with technical complexity all around them — whether in public health, climate science, economics …
In a political world obsessed with the ultra-short term, the 2023 Intergenerational Report (IGR) launched this week is a somewhat …
With much fanfare this week, the ACTU initiated an “Inquiry into price gouging and unfair pricing practices” to be chaired …
Allow me to do some self-promotion: the Sydney-based public-policy research organisation I head, the Centre for Independent Studies, will host …