Education and Skills

It is vital that Australia's education system exposes all sides of the important political issues to young people, and gives them the skills to participate in the modern world. However, many schools and universities are turning their back on free speech, and are indoctrinating children with political dogma. Here you will find our research on restoring freedom to education.

In The News

A New Breed Of ‘Historian’

Bella d'Abrera 9 January 2017 Education and skills, In the news,

In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves for what should be their first, exciting foray into higher...

Submissions

Response To Tertiary Education Quality Standards – Diversity And Equity

Matthew Lesh 10 December 2016 Education and skills, Publications,

The proposed draft Guidance Note represents a significant threat to freedom of speech and free academic inquiry in Australia’s universities. The Guidance Note should be withdrawn. The concerns...

In The News

Albrechtsen On The “Cult Of Taking Offence”

Morgan Begg 2 November 2016 Education and skills, Freedom of speech,

Janet Albrechtsen had an excellent article in The Australian today on the dangerous “cult of taking offence” ($) stifling free expression in the West: To be sure, America is the home of the...

Dead To History

Matthew Lesh 7 September 2016 Education and skills, In the news,

A movement to censor our history is forming at Australian universities. Students and academics are campaigning for buildings and lecture halls to be renamed because of their association with...

Book Reviews

Left Behind: Critiquing The Idealism Of Marxist Intellectuals Reveals The Failures Of Leftist Thought Since The Mid-20th Century

Scott Hargreaves 1 August 2016 Book reviews, Education and skills,

To judge Roger Scruton by his demeanour and suitably tweedy appearance, it would be easy to assume he comes from a strand of British philosophy previously personified by the later versions of...

Potential Rorting A Warning For PaTH Program

Aaron Lane 21 July 2016 Education and skills, Government services,

Allegations of potential rorting of the Victorian Labor government’s ‘Back to Work’ scheme is a warning shot across the bow of the re-elected Federal Coalition government’s...

Healthy competition Is Good For Children

Hannah Pandel 10 February 2016 Education and skills, Faith and society,

‘It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, only that you tried and did your best.’ This is often said to help children come to terms with suffering a defeat of some sort. In fact...

The End Of History…

Stephanie Forrest, Chris Berg and Hannah Pandel 17 July 2015 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Undergraduate history degrees in Australia fail to teach fundamental aspects of Australia’s history and how Australian liberal democracy came to be. Instead, they offer a range of disconnected...

Research Papers

Freedom To Teach

Vicki Stanley, Darcy Allen and Aaron Lane 17 December 2014 Education and skills, Ipa today,

While there has been much attention and significant resources dedicated to examining the structures surrounding the attraction, training, retention and performance of teachers, there is almost no...

Book Review: Loving the corporation, 50 years on

Scott Hargreaves 10 July 2006 Dignity of work, Education and skills,

‘Peter Drucker is probably the bestknown writer in the world on the philosophical and practical aspects of industrial management.’ So wrote the editor of the IPA Review in 1956 when introducing a...