- investigating more efficient ways to encourage the uptake of educational research in our schools and universities
- improve overall accessibility of education research to the public
📑 Response to Labor’s $280m Evidence Institute
The ALP’s pledge to fund an ‘Evidence Institute for Schools’ lacks attention to what is needed most—funding for schools and classrooms. Further, the effectiveness of this large sum of funding spent on an institute is premised on the notion that it will produce significantly more effective research than is already available.
Here’s what could be done
Emma Rowe and Trevor Gale suggest that rather than spending money on a new institute, the government should instead: