All posts by Nicholas Biddle

Dr. Nicholas Biddle is a quantitative social scientist, Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Deputy Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) at the Australian National University (ANU). He has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Education from Monash University. He also has a PhD in Public Policy from the ANU where he wrote his thesis on the benefits of and participation in education of Indigenous Australians.

Early childhood education is key to closing the gaps

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Nicholas Biddle

This year’s Closing the Gap report delivers a result that has become all too familiar in comparing outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: not enough progress is being made. There is improvement in some areas, but stagnation in others. The government is right to highlight progress reducing infant mortality (which is on track to meet […]