This Month
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Tip private schools out of boardrooms for a more productive Australia
Favouring the wealthy over innate talent in the education system is no way to filter what a country’s human capital might have to offer.
- Adrian Blundell-Wignall
I went to Newington and want my son to learn with girls. Here’s why
Witnesses say opponents of Newington College’s plan to admit girls blew raspberries at supporters during a heated meeting of parents at the school this week.
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- Samantha Hutchinson
- Exclusive
- Education
‘Unimaginable’: Newington mum speaks out against co-ed plan
A decision to admit girls to 160-year-old private boys’ school Newington College in Sydney has been a lightning rod for the broader community.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Newington parents take fight against coeducation to speech night
More than 400 Newington College parents have joined a new group dedicated to fighting the 160-year-old private school’s plan to become coeducational.
- Samantha Hutchinson
November
Legal letter warns private school not to admit girls
A group of parents warn that Newington College’s plan to go co-ed could breach 160-year-old trust rules that specify the Sydney school’s purpose is to teach boys.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Robert Millner just wants girls to do well
He just doesn’t want them to do well at his alma mater, Newington College, or, it seems, among the executives or boards he oversees.
- Hannah Wootton
Why coeducation is so fraught in Australia
When Newington College announced its decision to go co-ed, borderline hysteria ensued. The question is why.
- Julie Hare
Long home of the elite, the British private school is in decline
A new government may cut their tax breaks – and the number of such students at Oxford and Cambridge has fallen from 50 to 30 per cent.
- Melissa Denes
October
Hunt for man after ‘confronting’ private school killing
A manhunt is under way after a young female staff member was found dead in the gymnasium at a private school in Sydney’s city centre.
- Peter Bodkin and Luke Costin
September
- Opinion
- Sex & relationships
Contos wants your teenage boys to understand sex
At 15, I learnt that what I considered regular male sexual behaviour was criminal. The realisation helped ignite a national movement.
- Chanel Contos
June
Victorian budget takes $100m hit after school payroll tax watered down
The independent education sector’s chief executive says the impost will ‘milk parents’ doing it tough battling higher day-to-day costs.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Opinion
Cutting private schools’ funding will make them more elitist
Aspirational families, many of them newer Australians, would be priced out by a push to end government aid to the private sector.
- Aaron Patrick
May
- Analysis
- Victorian budget
Andrews’ ‘class warfare’ will hurt working families
Premier Daniel Andrews and Treasurer Tim Pallas both denied the criticism, but as Wednesday’s sale pitch unfolded it certainly seemed that way.
- Patrick Durkin
End of ‘sweetheart’ payroll tax deal will hurt girls schools
Tuesday’s state budget included the removal of payroll tax exemptions from more than 100 non-government schools to help pay for pandemic-era debt.
- Tom Burton
April
Cut fee-charging private schools from taxpayer teat, says think tank
Parents should be able to exercise choice, but government shouldn’t pay for it if schools also charge fees.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: What are the Liberals up to?
Julian Leeser, Peter Dutton, Barnaby Joyce and Coalition’s stance on the Voice; unfair criticism of RBA; safeguards and CCS; agricultural data; AFR, Pymble Ladies’ College and equality.
February
Private school enrolments surge 25pc in a decade
Demand for private schools keeps increasing as parents vote with their feet.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: Robo-debt was not a ‘mistake’
Robo-debt royal commission fallout; the ‘science’ of reading; Tony Abbott’s climate role; school funding; Adam Smith v IMF on taxes; Lidia Thorpe; a political Voice.
School funding surge to $72b fails to deliver
The Productivity Commission maps out a decade or more of steeply increased funding for schools against a backdrop of static student performance.
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- Julie Hare
January
Why super-strict classrooms are in vogue in Britain
Michaela Community School in north London is extraordinarily contentious with its emphasis on discipline and its stellar academic outcomes.
