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April 16, 2013
The sad reality is that four decades after federal and state governments began syphoning of funds from the public purse to top up poor Catholic parish schools we have seen an exponential growth of government funding go to middle class and wealthy private schools at the expense of increasingly impoverished and disadvantaged public schools.
Now, with the Gonski reforms to school funding we have a siphoning of funds from the universities to begin the process of public schools getting extra federal funding. However, Canberra now gives more money to private schools than it does to universities.
David Rowe
Labor's social democracy ethos is now reduced to bold education reform to achieve its social goals of a fairer and smarter Australia. The argument is that this $14.5 billion reform to education will open up the economic opportunities that flow from getting the best chances as early as possible in life. It's Gillard Labor's big national project.
It doesn't stack up.
How will funding cuts get more and more children into university; or ensure that Australian universities can deliver world-class education when the teenagers get there? What is the point of having a top school system in Australia whilst making cuts of $2.3 billion to university funding as part of the Gonski education reform
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I can't find out how much the govt IS giving to universities, HAS given to universities and WILL give to universities - relative to the COALItion govt of Howard and his mates.
I see claims around the place that the present govt HAS, compared to the previous COALition govt vastly increased funding to universities in recent years.
Is this true?
I see claims around the place that next year the universities WILL receive MORE funding than this year - or the previous [albeit at a lower rate of increase than in the immediate past].
Is this true?
Without this information, preferably presented in KISS form, I can't meaningfully comment on the present furore.