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  • Supporting gender and sexuality diverse students in NSW public schools

    29 September 2025

    NSW has made significant progress on gender and sexuality inclusion in public schools. But more can be done to address the systemic drivers of bullying and exclusion, including by providing practical support to schools.

    Jacqueline Ullman & Cris Townley

  • How high schools can best prepare students for the real world

    29 April 2024

    Financial literacy, workplace skills, health consciousness and independent living should all be core lessons for Australian high schoolers.

    Maxwell Yong

  • Getting the tertiary transition right: six things high schools can do to set students up for success at university

    20 March 2024

    The transition from school to university is a pivotal moment in the lives of young people – how can we better support their choices for improved individual and social outcomes?

    Maxwell Yong

  • Microcredentials: Small steppingstones towards a more inclusive future?

    10 October 2023

    Skills mismatches will grow due to climate change and its economic fallout. Microcredentials can enable rapid and inclusive re-skilling while offering universities an opportunity to re-invent their mission in a “climate changed” world.

    Jack Isherwood

  • No longer lost in translation

    4 September 2023

    The path to optimal collaboration between policymakers and researchers is long and winding – but innovative new institutions are helping accelerate the journey.

    Peter Shergold

  • The biggest risks of AI don’t come from it getting smarter than us – they come from us

    20 June 2023

    Policymakers should prioritise the risks of inequality, a loss of creativity and self-interested manipulation when thinking about AI.

    Jenny Gordon

  • Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan

    31 August 2022

    The new Labor government has a historic opportunity to boost young people’s wellbeing as part of its economic agenda—here’s how.

    Travers McLeod

  • “Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution

    30 August 2022

    Is now the moment to (re)introduce an independent "buffer body" for the tertiary sector that will enable universities to respond to future jobs, skills and research needs?

    Libby Hackett

  • Australian student writing on an exam paper (Photo by Lincoln Beddoe/iStock)

    Improving secondary education is not only the right thing to do – it is good for future productivity growth

    9 May 2022

    The declining performance of Australia’s secondary schools is limiting productivity growth. An ambitious, inclusive plan for policy reform is needed to move things in a better direction.

    Jenny Gordon

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