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Reports of shocking abuse and neglect in our early childhood system mean many Australians are questioning whether they can trust childcare centres. In our new report, we look at some…

Many Australians are rightly shocked by the spate of recent reports of serious safety breaches in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings.

Australia’s early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy and funding settings have driven strong growth in childcare places for relatively low public investment. But the way the sector has grown matters.

The Conversation: Several Liberal MPs are calling for child-care costs to be tax-deductible, but will families be better off.

The re-elected Coalition government has some serious work to do with its state counterparts to get Australia’s tertiary education sector back on track.

Australia’s tertiary education participation rates are on the decline and on current trends would fall by around 16 per cent over the next 10 years from its peak.

Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education finds that for the 2014 group of 24-year-olds who weren’t earning or learning.

Demand-driven funding in higher education but not vocational education will distort both provision and student choice, says Peter Noonan.

Australia has achieved near universal enrolment in preschool for children in the year before school. We can do the same for our 3 year olds.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham has foreshadowed further major changes to the troubled VET FEE-HELP loan scheme to rein in costs and tackle widespread abuse by unscrupulous providers.

Shanghai has one of the highest performing education systems in international rankings, so why is China moving away from a test-based approach to university entry?

Peter Noonan asks whether the higher education reform process will stretch out into the next election cycle.