Education

The meeting of education ministers on 6 July 2023 was a missed opportunity to mandate the adoption of explicit instruction in every Australian classroom, according… Read More »Education ministers’ meeting a missed opportunity

The Albanese Government was handed a ready-made plan with the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review when it came to government more than 12 months ago. In typical… Read More »Labor’s education minister is all talk and no action on Coalition’s teacher training reforms

Australian families are feeling so much pain from the Albanese Government’s misguided policies that countless school children are going hungry.The Australian newspaper reported yesterday that school principals… Read More »Labor should be ashamed that schools are turning to charities to feed hungry students

Joint media release Senator the Hon Sarah Henderson, Shadow Minister for Education, Senator for Victoria Angie Bell, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Shadow Minister… Read More »Labor’s promise of ‘cheaper child care’ delivers higher fees and no new places for regional Victoria

Victorian Labor’s shameful schools tax which passed the Victorian Parliament last night will mean lost jobs for teachers and higher fees for parents.  This is… Read More »Labor’s shameful schools tax hits Victorian families hard

The Albanese Government has been unable to explain why it is delivering a student loans scheme that will charge $11,800 for university accelerator courses which… Read More »Labor’s Startup Year loans scheme puts students last

Shadow Minister for Education, Sarah Henderson, has called on the Albanese Government to repay Australians who are hit with indexation penalties on student loans they… Read More »Labor must provide HECS debt fairness

Shadow Minister for Education, Sarah Henderson, has hit out at the Albanese Government for failing to address escalating student debt at a time when so… Read More »Labor gets an F for escalating student debt and plummeting school standards