Jane Caro

Give more to teachers who do the hard yards

Unless Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop commits to increased public schools funding, her plan for a teacher incentive fund would force the most under-resourced public schools to do more with less, writes Jane Caro

Education

Education Topic 1: Desperately Seeking Safety

the Centre for Policy Development introduces the first article in its Education Policy Development Series. Jane Caro responds to widespread parental anxiety about the safety of children in general and in relation to education. She supports current attempts to establish the cost of adequately educating different groups of students and calls for schools in receipt of government funding to take a share of the toughest to educate, not just the easiest

Education

Australia and the World: Healthy, Wealthy and Unwise

Jane Caro writes, 'Generosity by the West, by rich countries like Australia, particularly in the areas of health and education, will do more to help our long-term security than all the Australian Federal Police in the world.'

Aid & development

The Value of Simplicity: Flat tax?

One of the universal burdens today is the increasing level of complexity in everyone's lives. From the poor to the rich, everything seems to be hard to understand, time consuming and bureaucratic. Business has pushed a great deal of customer service back onto the customer, it saves them money, but it costs us time. Who wants to call any kind of customer service line these days?