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Vignette – A faith perspective

August 4, 2025

Caroline David is the Principal of Woonona High School, and Vice President of the NSW South Coast Secondary Principals’ Council. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney investigating how Australian education policy architecture is entrenching inequality.

Lessons from Canada

May 14, 2025

The report is now available on
https://all-learning.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/12905-ALL_LessonsfromCanada_FullReport_Digital_FA.pdf

The findings from a study tour to Canada to learn more about how schools attain equity and achievement are to be published shortly by ALL.

Lessons from Canada, authored by Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, tracks the discussions and findings from the tour, ...

Quebec moves a step closer towards an equal school system

A Bill that would see public and private schools in Quebec become part of a free and accessible to all common network has been presented by Québec solidaire (QS) in the National Assembly of Quebec.

QS co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal presented Bill 895 saying that it would ensure that all children in the province would have access to quality education, regardless of their parents’ income or their academic results.

Next generation learning initiative

ALL, the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association (ASPA) and The University of Melbourne, have joined forces to create Next Generation Learning, a new program empowering public high schools to redefine student success and boost student engagement.

They are inviting Australian public secondary schools to participate in the evidence-based initiative: Next-Generation Learning. Expressions of interest are sought from principals ...

Curb selective schools to redress the imbalance of disadvantaged students in public schools

A call to curb new selective schools and ask private schools to open their doors to less advantaged children has been made by former head of the federal Department of Education Michele Bruniges at a school summit in Sydney.

The call is just one in a series of recommendations to stem the disproportionate concentration of poor students in the public system. The recommendations are a result of new research supported by the Paul ...

Warnings about the accumulating impact of social segregation in Australian schools grow

In an international context, Australian schools rank among the most socially segregated within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with significant effects on student outcomes.

The findings have been supported by new research from Murdoch University’s PhD scholar Michael Sciffer, who showed that the current schooling framework fails to properly identify and meet equity needs, and that urgent ...

Promising steps but we are still skating the surface of what is really needed

The election is over. All public schools are on the path to better funding by 2034. That’s a decade away. We congratulate the Federal Government and Jason Clare for raising the Commonwealth’s funding to public schools and insisting that states meet their funding obligations.
The commitment to review how that funding is used and whether it is making a meaningful difference to young people is also welcomed, especially the potential to ...

Investing Additional Resources in Schools ServingLow-Income Students

October 28, 2024

Money matters in education, especially for students from families that are struggling financially.
Increasing school funding not only leads to improved school completion rates and higher
achievement in low-income school districts,but over the long-term it can increase educational
attainment, wages, and family incomes for children from low-income families.

Australia fares poorly in OECD’s Education at a Glance report

September 28, 2024

The latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s ‘Education at a Glance’ report reveals that Australia significantly underperforms against most OECD countries when it comes to investing in public schools.

Governments urged to find ways to lift student outcomes through increased socio-economic diversity

Australian Learning Lecture has called on the Commonwealth Government and all political parties to commit to an independent expert review into existing policy settings and new policy levers to increase socio economic diversity in schools and lift student outcomes, presented in Improving Outcomes for All.