Parental influences on learning
The Australian, p.29 Wednesday, 8 September 2010 A piece in The Australian reports the findings of Dr Michael Coelli’s new report ‘The forgotten second quartile: parental income and youth postsecondary...
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The Age, p11 Wednesday 15 September 2010 Professor Ross Williams, Honorary (Professorial Fellow) with the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, was quoted by a report in The Age...
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Melbourne best in Australia in key rankings
'The Spot', 198 Berkeley Street The University of Melbourne has been placed top in Australia and 36th in the world by the Times Higher Education rankings of the world top 200 universities. Melbourne...
View ArticleCycle of disadvantage difficult to break
Sunraysia Daily, p.5 Thursday, 24 March 2011 The Sunraysia Daily reports on a presentation by Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark, Director of Melbourne Institute, to the annual meeting of the Northern Mallee...
View ArticleEarly Years Education Research Project
Radio National, Breakfast 8:05AM Tuesday 2 August 2011 The Age, p.4 Friday, 29 July 2011 Professor Jeff Borland, of the Department of Economics, discussed selection process for participants of...
View ArticleBorn to read
A report just out by the Melbourne Institute and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development headed up by Professor Guyonne Kalb is featured in The Age today. The study shows that...
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Five Fatal Flaws of the Gonski Report
The Gonski Report rests on five faulty assumptions that will undermine its usefulness as a cornerstone of Australian education policy, a study from the Melbourne Institute has found. The study, What’s...
View ArticleGonski funding will not make or break education
The Australian’s editorial on Friday highlights Melbourne Institute research that we issued on Thursday. Click here to listen to an interview with one of the authors of this research.
View ArticleFees set to soar at Victoria’s elite private schools
Annual school fees at elite independent schools will reach $30,000 on average by 2016, Associate Professor Joe Hirschberg in the Department of Economics has estimated in research that was covered by...
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Why is Australia poor at Maths?
The reading, mathematical and scientific achievement levels of 15-year-olds in Australian school students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests were lower in 2012 than...
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Catholic schooling pays – 12% more to be precise
Sister Mary MacKillop established an extensive network of schools for the poor in Australia from 1867 onwards. Pictured here ‘A Group of Nuns’ from 1916 courtesy of the State Library of Victoria...
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Healthy lifestyles linked to extra schooling
Staying in school for longer increases a person’s chance of leading a healthy life, a University of Melbourne study has determined. Researchers Professor Nattavudh Powdthavee and Dr Jinhu Li...
View ArticlePupils from large families ‘do worse at school’
Children from large families tend to do worse in maths and reading than youngsters with few brothers and sisters, our research suggests and which the London Independent plus others reported on recently.
View ArticleThreats to welfare payments only short term fix to Indigenous school attendance
Indigenous school attendance improved when there was a threat that the Federal Government would cut welfare payments if children didn’t go to school, University of Melbourne researchers have found....
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