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…
Does Postcode = Destiny?
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…
50 Shades of Youth Unemployment
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…
State of the Regions 2015
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…
Social Progress Index
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…
Student Achievement in Australia – Looking closely
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…
What to give a child who can’t read?
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…
Truly I say to you….
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…