Educational Leadership

Leaked documents expose the secret calculations the NSW Catholic school system is using to divert millions of dollars in government funding from poor to rich schools. And data suggests it could be happening in other states.

One of the country's most prestigious Catholic boys' schools, St Kevin's College, is facing criticism after revelations it did not support a student victim during a child sex offence trial.

This special funding deal will only further stimulate the private school sector and exacerbate segregation by socio-economic status across school sectors.

The Review to Achieve Education Excellence in Schools calls for a “sector-blind” approach to education reform, an approach that will “enable all students to achieve educational excellence”, regardless of their school sector. This latest announcement contradicts the prior policy papers from this government.

The public school sector caters for our society’s most disadvantaged. This is the school sector we should be actively celebrating and supporting through bold federal government initiatives.

Our new Prime Minister suggests his latest cash-splash to the education sector, which indisputably educates the better-off, is a solution to the schools funding wars? This isn't even a cease-fire, writes Jane Caro.

Police are investigating a 'daily bulletin' sent to year 12 students at a Melbourne high school which named boys as being gay and claimed a girl 'distributed sexual favours'.

Just $3-4 million a year could maintain "affordable choice" for families at Catholic schools, the Grattan Institute said.

Priests should be banned from being the employers of principals and teachers in Catholic schools, Australia’s royal commission into child sexual abuse has recommended in its final report as it excoriated “almost incomprehensible” failures to report abusers to the police.