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Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult life

  • Written by: Stephen Lamb, Research Chair in Education and Director of the Centre for International Research on Education Systems, Victoria University
imageTo the taxpayer, each long-term early school leaver costs $335,000.from shutterstock.com

One in eight Australians will never get Year 12 qualifications. Some, but not all of these people, make up the one in eight Australians who will be disengaged from full-time work, study or training for most of their lives.

These groups are the subject of...

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Autonomy and strong female leadership key to success of Indigenous owned Murri School

  • Written by: Tess Ryan, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra and Project Officer, Poche Center for Indigenous Health, University of Melbourne, University of Canberra
imageThe Murri School is one of the few Indigenous owned and controlled schools in Australia. Screenshot from YouTube video.

In this series, we’ll discuss whether progress is being made on Indigenous education, looking at various areas including policy, scholarships, school leadership, literacy and much more.

In Indigenous education, we constantly...

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Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries

  • Written by: Karen Strojek, PhD Candidate in Politics, La Trobe University
imageOur land-title system originated in the mid-19th century when Sir Robert Richard Torrens campaigned to reform Adelaide's chaotic deeds-based land system. National Library of Australia

Recent government moves to commercialise Australia’s state-based land-titles registries have generated strong concerns about transparency, security of title and...

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Ten Network's problems are history repeating

  • Written by: Marc C-Scott, Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University

Reporters at the Ten Network relayed the news of their employer’s voluntary administration, during a staff meeting. The network was looking to refinance to the tune of A$250 million, after its existing finance was due to expire on December 23.

But Ten’s directors said they were left no choice but to appoint administrators from...

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  1. UK Labour's votes have become inefficiently distributed since 2010
  2. For $70m, government gets off lightly, but settlement still highlights responsibility for Manus
  3. When is 'not a backdoor' just a backdoor? Australia's struggle with encryption
  4. Trepidation and delight: experiencing Dark Mofo with a three-year-old
  5. Uncertainty isn't causing slow economic growth, for now
  6. Health Check: what's the right way to blow your nose?
  7. Why women’s tennis rankings need an overhaul
  8. Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large 'megapode' birds once lived across Australia
  9. Research Check: can even moderate drinking cause brain damage?
  10. Three charts on: Australia's booming prison population
  11. Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
  12. Indigenous picture books offering windows into worlds
  13. Curious Kids: Who made the alphabet song?
  14. The compulsion to create: 'outsider art' at MONA's Museum of Everything
  15. From Joseph Banks to big data, herbaria bring centuries-old science into the digital age
  16. Three strategies unions are considering for their survival
  17. In defence of serendipity: the Silicon Emperor is wearing no clothes
  18. Critical backbenchers push back on Finkel clean energy target plan
  19. Mamamia! When it's high time for some bitch-shamin'
  20. New tax treaty will close loopholes that allow multinationals to avoid tax
  21. Film festival reveals the passion, emotion and disappointment that can come with science
  22. Should Australia have a Modern Slavery Act?
  23. An extra organ or body part is more common than you think
  24. Could you pass the proposed English test for Australian citizenship?
  25. A better alternative to levying the bank tax
  26. Report sparks concern about how schools support students with disabilities
  27. The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail
  28. Regulator failing to resolve complaints on alleged human rights abuses by Australian companies
  29. Sydney public housing evictions a policy success? Only if you ignore the high human cost
  30. Some private hospitals are safer than others, but we don't know which
  31. Explainer: what Islam actually says about domestic violence
  32. Guide to the classics: Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
  33. How to backup life on Earth ahead of any doomsday event
  34. We need to know the true cost of Indigenous boarding school scholarships on communities
  35. Why you should care about the world's largest video games expo E3
  36. How hard will Tony Abbott run against the Finkel plan?
  37. Turnbull and Shorten urge need to curb terrorists' opportunities on the internet
  38. Not merely costume: the power and seduction of the Queen's hats
  39. FactCheck Q A: are rates of drug use 2.5 times higher among unemployed people than employed people?
  40. Here's one to gymnologize over: the case for bringing back snollygostery, trumpery and humbuggery
  41. The economics of self-service checkouts
  42. Creative city, smart city ... whose city is it?
  43. History textbooks still imply that Australians are white
  44. Dear diary: another day in the life on Mars
  45. Choosing healthy food: your surroundings can help or hinder your dining choices
  46. Conservatives suffer shock loss of majority at UK general election
  47. Rise of 'anti-politics' produces surprise result in the UK election – and it's playing a role in Australia, too
  48. COAG agrees to new push on security after Melbourne attack
  49. Energy solutions but weak on climate – experts react to the Finkel Review
  50. Weekly Quiz: what is the most consumed meat in Australia?

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