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Trevor Cobbold

Trevor Cobbold

Brisbane Times

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Government funding increases continue to favour private schools

New figures again demonstrate the bias against public schools in Australia’s school funding system. Government funding for Catholic and...

27.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Trevor Cobbold

Fully funding public schools is critical for the government’s education agenda

The recent announcement by the Federal Minister for Education, Jason Clare, that the government wants to raise the percentage of young people...

16.03.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Trevor Cobbold

Labor’s complete capitulation to elite private schools….again!

A few hours of testimony before the Education Committee of Senate Estimates exposed the canker at the heart of school funding in Australia. The canker...

23.02.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Trevor Cobbold

To assert Western Australian public schools will be fully funded by 2026 is simply not true

The new school funding agreement between the Albanese and Western Australian governments is a significant step forward for the funding of public...

02.02.2024 30

The Guardian

Trevor Cobbold

Private schools had biggest decline in PISA results

Catholic and independent schools had the biggest declines in the OECD’s Programme of Student Assessment (PISA) test results since 2009. Their...

29.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Trevor Cobbold

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