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Category: Evidence-Based Planning

All things Data. Evidence-based planning, visualisation techniques and resources.

Funding vs Need

Posted in Education, Evidence-Based Planning, State Education Policy
Bill

According to the latest announcements by Deputy Premier & Minister for Education,  James Merlino, a new needs-based funding model for Victorian government schools will use parents’ education levels, the concentration…

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Victoria - Place Matters

Does Postcode = Destiny?

Posted in Data and Visualisation, Evidence-Based Planning, Local Government Areas, Social Progress
Bill

The Jesuit Social Services[ @JesuitSocialSer ] continue to do good work when it comes to visualising the place-based challenges for policy makers. Their recent Dropping off the edge 2015 studies population areas in every…

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Youth Employment Ratios

50 Shades of Youth Unemployment

Posted in Evidence-Based Planning, Youth Employment
Bill

Patrick Carvalho, writing for the Centre of Independent Studies, in his piece 50 Shades of Youth Unemployment, makes some very useful and constructive contributions to the analysis of Australian Youth…

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Walking in Rural

State of the Regions 2015

Posted in Evidence-Based Planning, Regional Policy
Bill

Evidence-based, geographically relevant economic and social models are fundamental to good policy and decision making. Thankfully, the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) and their long-time partners, The National Institute of Economic…

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SPI

Social Progress Index

Posted in Evidence-Based Planning, Social Progress
Bill

Michael Porter leads The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and is a respected Harvard Business School professor. He has been acknowledged as the most influential living management thinker. Professor Porter’s work on Institutional structures…

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Books

Student Achievement in Australia – Looking closely

Posted in Education, Evidence-Based Planning
Bill

  Chris Ryan from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research [Melbourne Institute] published an excellent paper in the Economics of Education Review in 2013 that is an…

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The Class of 2020

Posted in Evidence-Based Planning, Youth Employment
Bill

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CIS

What to give a child who can’t read?

Posted in Education, Evidence-Based Planning, State Education Policy
Bill

Jenny Buckingham from the CIS poses the challenge to all Victorians of the 40,000 students in Years 3 to 9 whose reading and numeracy skills are either at or below…

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Truly I say to you….

Posted in Evidence-Based Planning, State Government
Bill

The only observation I will make is that I echo the comments of Professor Freemantle. The year is 2014….. Such important research. Aboriginal babies in Victoria are twice as likely to…

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