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At last the eerie silence on schools funding has ended

At last the eerie silence on schools funding has ended
28.01.2025 4

Pearls and Irritations

Lyndsay Connors

Australia’s school system: winners and losers?

In a school system so deeply segregated along class and cultural lines it is not hard to identify the losers. But the question is whether there are...

28.11.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

Lyndsay Connors

Australia’s school system has lost its moorings

Lack of leadership by successive Australian governments has created a rift between rhetoric and reality that has played a part in eroding public...

13.11.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

Lyndsay Connors

Australia’s school system: Entitlement vs need

When leaving school at seventeen, I did not expect that my participation in the Australian school system would resume; or that adult life would...

15.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Lyndsay Connors

Australia’s school system: losing common ground

Both in Australia and the UK, governments are moving to clean up the damage of the privatisation era. But in Australia’s school sector, far from...

01.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Lyndsay Connors