Education

If the government’s new schools funding plan represents an ideological change, its cuts to universities reflect a calculated antipathy.

The campaign against Safe Schools is reaching its final chapter, but in many respects the program has already done its work.

A suite of policy settings, from wage cuts to unaffordable education, shows the government turning its back on a generation.

As the federal government shies away from the full funding of Gonski, the successes of the model are becoming clearer.

It has been the training ground for some of Australia’s best-known artists but now the National Art School is on a knife edge as its interim administrator fights to secure its future.

Roz Ward speaks for the first time about the concerted attacks on her character and the Safe Schools program she leads.

As elite private schools continue to benefit from government funding, Australian education standards are sliding in global terms and politicians remain reluctant to take a stand.

Despite a campaign to develop better support services for victims of sexual assault on campus, students say universities are more concerned for their own reputation.

Visual arts education is under siege as plans to merge Sydney colleges spark accusations economic rationalism is triumphing over creative endeavour.

The Australian Christian Lobby has a high profile as a religious organisation seeking to influence government policy, but are its claims of intolerance and censorship a sign it realises it is out of step with a secular society?