Tag Archives: NAPLAN

Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Peter Siminski, Marian Vidal-Fernandez and William Coventry

This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors in NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to tackle old problems and identify emerging opportunities across the state. Peter Siminski, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Wollongong; Marian Vidal-Fernandez, Senior Lecturer in […]

Queensland’s NAPLAN results show how early learning works

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Chris Steel

In 2008, Queensland had the worst enrolment rates in early childhood education, in the year before full-time schooling, in Australia. Only 29 per cent of children were enrolled for at least one hour per week (Deloitte, 2014, p. 19). As a result of targets set under the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early […]