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The Mitchell Institute

A leading education policy think tank and research centre working towards educational equity

Early learning

Educational equity from the start

Schooling

Setting young people up for success

Tertiary education

A system that works for everyone

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Report 18 May 2026

Years apart: Australia’s growing educational inequality

Achievement gap Equity
Accessing the ATAR
Report 9 December 2025

Assessing the ATAR: Exploring the use of the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR)

ATAR Pathways and transitions
Media release 25 November 2025

Calls for full-service schools to tackle Australia’s growing education divide

Equity Full-service schools
Policy Brief, Report 24 November 2025

Achieving Better & Fairer Schools: The case for full-service school models in Australia

Full-service schools High school

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Childcare deserts

Childcare deserts: Mapping where childcare supply falls short across Australia, highlighting inequities in access and informing policy solutions to support children, families, and communities.

Election

The Mitchell Institute’s election brief series summarises the biggest issues across Australia's education sector in the lead-up to the elections.

Pathways in Place

Pathways in Place: Co-Creating Community Capabilities is a program of research and action that supports the flourishing of children and young people in two communities.

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Australian Financial Review

Jobs of the future that don’t require uni degrees

Jobs and skills Pathways and transitions
The New York Times

How foreign students lost their sheen in a nation of immigrants

International education International students
ABC News

$55,000 arts degrees and continued job cuts as universities call for urgent reform to degree pricing

HECS/HELP Reform
ABC News

How distance, disadvantage and the digital divide impact country schooling

Equity Full-service schools

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Ancestors, Elders and families of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne campuses), the Eora Nation (Sydney campus) and the Yugara/YUgarapul and Turrbal Nation (Brisbane campus) who are the traditional owners of University land. As we share our own knowledge practices within the University, may we pay respect to the deep knowledge embedded within the Aboriginal community and recognise their ownership of Country.

We acknowledge that the land on which we meet, learn, and share knowledge is a place of age-old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the Traditional Owners’ living culture and practices have a unique role in the life of this region.

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