Parents and families continue to be hamstrung by inefficiencies and lack of accountability in Australian schools. Despite billions of dollars of annual spending, on everything from buildings, curriculum reviews and research to teacher wellbeing programs, additional tutors and computers, the…
Category: School Choice
Are schools providing maximum value?
With just a few weeks before Victorian schools start their end of term holiday, or ‘vacation’, there’s a timely question we need to ask: Are schools providing maximum value? More than 2,260 schools, some of them with state-of-the-art facilities and…
The First Schools
It has been said that the very first public school began in 459BC. It was the ‘house of the book’ or the ‘house of the teacher’, and it was established in Jerusalem by a Jewish scribe and priest, known as…