As Australian families prepare for term 1, many will receive letters from their public schools asking them to pay fees.

In 2024, the average tuition fee for a Year 12 student in NSW was A$15,674 and in Victoria it was $20,923. This is in keeping ...

Australian Education Union President Correna Haythorpe said the findings highlighted the “deeply inequitable system” in school funding between the public and private sectors. “Resources ...

There is some evidence to support the conclusion. More than 25% of Australia’s economic activity is attributed to the federal public sector. If a business makes 20% profit (and the average is ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has doubled down on his commitment to wind back increases in the size of the Australian Public Service (APS) under the Albanese government. Among the political ...

South Australia and Victoria have now signed on to the government's school funding agreement. The agreement will see the Commonwealth lift its share of public school funding to 25 per cent from ...

Australian families fork out hundreds in ... “Governments are underfunding our public schools and shifting the costs onto parents already struggling with the cost of living.

The commonwealth will provide $1bn in additional funding to South Australian public schools and around $2.5bn to Victorian public schools over the next 10 years as per the agreement. The ...

Here it is. Public schools were the big winners in last year’s Year 9 NAPLAN numeracy results, with only two private schools in the top 20, but all were academically selective in their student ...

which investigated how billionaires were addressing the growing financial divide between Australian public and private schools through “edu-philanthropy”. Monash University School of ...

Independent Schools Australia has revealed it will target ... of private schools with more funding per student than their public counterparts. As the prospect of a minority government looms ...

principal solicitor in general practice at Youth Law Australia. "If it's a public school, they can't suspend you or expel you for not following the dress code, but they can still take disciplinary ...