Michael Sciffer

Most segregated in the world: here's why that matters blog.aare.edu.au/most-segrega...

YouTube video by Michael Sciffer Australian School Segregation

Australian school segregation is driven by unregulated private school fees and enrolment practices

(PDF) Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees PDF | School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

School segregation is driven by increased provision of private and selective schools

<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of seg....

School segregation is driven by increased provision of private and selective schools via @berj-2025.bsky.social

Caz Heise supporting public education

A message from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese This is "A message from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese" by NSW Teachers Federation on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The Australian Education Union wrote to Dutton and Albanese about their education policies. Only one bothered replying

Completion seminar done

Wide system changes needed for Australian schools to reach equity goals Social segregation in Australia’s education system is creating barriers for disadvantaged students, according to new research from Murdoch University, and wide systemic change is needed.

Wide system changes needed for Australian schools to reach equity goals www.murdoch.edu.au/news/article...

The Systemic Inefficiency of Australian Schools: A Policy and Measurement Review Entrenched social inequalities mean that Australia's schooling system is far from achieving the Alice Spring's (Mparntwe) Education Declaration's equity goal. This is associated with Australian schoo...

School segregation is harming the learning of Australian children and diminishing the effectiveness of schools. Governments need to begin reporting these effects. My paper in the Australian Journal of Social Issues onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fixing a flawed levy on the banks could leave Australia’s budget billions of dollars better off Australia’s banks have been given an easy ride at taxpayers’ expense. And economists Chris Richardson argues the banking levy is a fraction of what it should be * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The budget would be billions of dollars better off every year if Australia’s biggest banks were forced to pay taxpayers for an unspoken guarantee that taxpayers will bail them out in a crisis. Days out from a fourth Labor budget that will show a looming decade of deficits, there is a growing urgency to make bolder decisions as part of a wider audit of how we tax and spend. Continue reading...

Fixing a flawed levy on the banks could leave Australia’s budget billions of dollars better off

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NSW Teachers Federation launches its campaign to defend public schools funding

Dutton will trash public schools funding just like Abbott

NSW Teachers Federation Council meets today to consider the Albanese federal government’s school funding plan

Labor is fixing the funding of public schools in the biggest state in Australia. This is the biggest new investment in NSW public schools by the Australian Government ever.

This funding is tied to real practical reforms to lift standards and make sure more children get a great start in life.

Albanese clears $4.8bn hurdle in race to federal election The federal government will lift its share of NSW school funding in a similar deal to a $2.5 billion agreement with Victoria five weeks ago.

Fantastic news for NSW public schools. Dutton will try to wreck this to fund corporate boozy lunches www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Dalek

Stargate project to make Trump into a Dalek? No need for a cortex vault to repress his compassion

PhD by publication - five papers published, one paper under review for minor revisions, another paper under first review. Thesis - introduction, lit review, linking chapters done. Concluding discussion to go then first draft DONE!

Has the plan to help more disadvantaged kids into selective schools failed? Here’s what the data says One expert suggests providing free academic coaching for the selective school test, with just 1 per cent of students at some schools from a lower socio-economic background.

Despite the introduction of quotas, Australian selective schools continue to vastly over enrol from the most advantaged families. This is unsurprising as the purpose of selective schools is to isolate children from each other www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse Cashed-up grandparents are driving private education fees ever higher. It’s just another degree of stratification for our dysfunctional school system.

Australia finds itself one of few countries whose governments have not only created, but also funded, an education system in which the wealthy have the most resources and the disadvantaged have the least. www.smh.com.au/national/how...

Sydney’s wealthiest schools growing further out of reach The city’s middle-class families, already hit by rising costs of living, face another nasty shock as our high-fee private schools increase the costs of entry.

Australia's school funding system of unregulated private school fees and governments failing to fund public schools to the minimum resource standard is a disaster. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

OK

I got 4 hours sleep last night and I’m completely smashing out a journal article. New strategy for productivity?

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?

100%? 500%?

Try 1,085%

Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD party has a secret Facebook group for its leaders.

They shared and laughed at a post one of them made with Anne Frank’s picture on a pizza box, saying Oven Fresh.

Elon Musk just endorsed the AfD.

Early this year we released a report warning of the risks of AI in schools. Now we have semi-automated teaching, AI lesson planners, AI in every edtech platform etc making schools into live experimental sites of unregulated, untested, unproven AI, so I guess we go at it again in 2025...

Albanese and Dutton acting like year 8 boys.

‘Absolute insanity’: Parents, students vow to fight changes at top Sydney school The NSW government will turn a northern beaches senior high school into a year 7 to 12 campus under a plan to expand access to co-education.

There are whole suburbs being built in Sydney without public school provision but apparently the story is a small group of parents opposed to co-education www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Amazing how similar Australia is to the UK in narrowing education to a measurable commodity