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Thoughts on Gonski and education reform.

By Paul Frijters On May 16, 2013 · Add Comment

With the Gonski reforms expected to be rolled out across Australia in the coming 5 years, it is handy to reflect on what actually are the basic challenges for school reform in Australia. A view of the underlying issues helps one to judge the likely outcomes of the current reforms and others one might think of.

One can see the main learning challenges in Australian schools as related to the quality of what is taught, [...]

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Timothy Devinney on Overpaid Vice-Chancellors

By Paul Frijters On May 15, 2013 · 7 Comments

In an excellent recent piece on his own website, Timothy Devinney looks at how the compensation of Australian Vice Chancellors compares to those of the UK and the US. He gave me permission to re-use his calculations. Below I give you the guts of his story which, if one uses updated figures from the ones he uses, gets you to the realisation that Vice-Chancellors at the GO8 and ‘Technology’ universities get 300% in [...]

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Baby bonus: even as it exits poor implementation continues

On May 14, 2013 By Joshua Gans

Sigh. Heavy sigh. Sometimes you have to wonder whether anyone is listening. The baby bonus will finally be scrapped with the $5000 payment (already changed to means tested and paid over time) being replaced essentially by its predecessor. The 10 year policy is over.

But when will it be over?

“Outlining a plan to deliver a tiny surplus of less than $1 billion in the third year of the [...]

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Andrew Leigh and Adrian Pagan on our Book

On May 13, 2013 By Paul Frijters

The book launch tour of Australia ended last week with a visit to the Melbourne Institute, where Deborah Cobb-Clark kindly hosted the last in our marathon-series of 5 launches. They all were a great success, with the publisher actually running out of books for the last one and thus having to scramble for extra copies.

What was memorable about the Canberra and Melbourne launches were that the hosts had read the [...]

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Parental Leave on The Drum

On May 9, 2013 By Joshua Gans

Over at ABC’s The Drum today, I write about the Coalition’s parental leave plan.

Abbott’s leave scheme is a step backwards for women

Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme is widely regarded as a boon for women. But will it do anything to address the larger problem of gender discrimination in the workplace? Joshua Gans says it likely will make matters worse.

Parental leave policy is back in the news. The [...]

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How fast is the NBN exposes how bad the policy debate is

On May 8, 2013 By Joshua Gans

There is a new site doing the rounds on Facebook: howfastisthenbn.com.au. It comes the ALP and Coalition’s NBN plans and surprise-surprise, the ALP’s one is much faster.

So here are the activities that are compared:

uploading wedding photos to Facebook Downloading Game of Thrones Uploading a new puppy video to YouTube Syncing engineering designs with Dropbox

The biggest public expenditure in Australia’s recent history is going to [...]

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The Coalition’s Maternity Leave Mess

On May 8, 2013 By Joshua Gans

I just did an interview for ABC radio on the Coalition’s maternity leave plans. Yes, maternity, not parental leave. You can’t call something parental leave unless it involves both parents and two weeks token leave for Daddy doesn’t cut it.

For those who haven’t been following it, this plan which harks back to 2010 is to give mother’s six months leave at their replacement wage up to a total of [...]

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The Gonski revival

On May 5, 2013 By Sam Wylie

I am teaching my elder son to drive.  So today, for the first time in a long time, I spent an hour driving around our suburb and neighbouring suburbs on a Sunday morning.  Because I spend a fair bit of time in taxis I am used to mistake ridden driving and don’t sweat it too much.  I just relaxed and looked out the window.  It was surprising how many Evangelical churches there are in those [...]

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Book launches in Sydney and Canberra on May 1 and 2

On April 30, 2013 By Paul Frijters

Tomorrow, there is a book launch of ‘An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks‘ at UNSW, hosted by Professor Chris Styles, Director of the Australian Graduate School of Business. It starts at 6pm and is in the JBR Theatre (AGSM building) of the Kensington Campus. Day after tomorrow, Andrew Leigh will host another book launch in Canberra at University House (the Common Room) starting at 6. Everyone is welcome [...]

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Is QUT a real university?

On April 26, 2013 By Paul Frijters

In 1989, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) was created with the hope of creating a local competitor to the University of Queensland. The resources given to it by the community have been immense, with real estate and subsidies worth many billions. With its prime location in the very middle of the city, next to the parliament, it has the basic resources to be the best university in Queensland. Let us have a look whether it [...]

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