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ItemStatistics of public expenditure on education in Australia : requirements for the formation of national policy( 1976)In Australia's federal system the provision of educational services is the responsibility of the state governments. However, the federal government has also acquired responsibilities for. education. Since the second world war, the state governments have been dependent on the federal government for a large proportion of the funds needed to discharge their responsibilities. More directly, the federal government has greatly extended the scope of its activities in education, mainly through the use of specific. purpose grants to the states. By 1970 these grants affected all levels of education in the states. To be effective, national 'educational policies should take account of differences between the states as well as of 'national needs. Necessary information includes national statistics which are compiled on the same basis for each of . the states. The coverage and quality of national educational statistics has improved considerably, but there are still deficiencies. In particular, the statistics of public expenditure on education do not provide an adequate account of the states individually, or of national trends. Unpublished records of the Australian Bureau of Statistics provide the basis for a set of figures of public expenditure on education which are both more comprehensive and more detailed than those published. Analysis of these figures for the period 1963-64 to 1973-74 shows large differences in the patterns of educational expenditure in each of the states. Nationally there have been considerable changes in the composition of total public outlay on education, the rapid growth of the tertiary sector outside universities being particularly noteworthy. Official statistics of this kind are needed to make possible an effective assessment of the priorities and directions of Australian education.
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ItemPrivate schools, impact assessment and the regulatory regime of federal state aid( 1989)This work addresses a particular aspect of Commonwealth Government education funding policy emergent in the post-Kamel era -- the attitude of successive governments in the .1970s and 1980s to the funding of new non-government schools and to the expansion of the non-government schools sector. It traces in particular the emergence of the notion of "impact", which entailed a concession that the establishment of a new non-government school could adversely affect education services offered by neighbouring schools. Incorporation of impact provisions into formal government guidelines for funding of new non-government schools after 1983 represented one of the more important differences between Hawke Government education policies and those of the former Coalition Government. It is my contention that a focus on this relatively limited policy area maps out a site of intersection of government and non-government school sectors that is comparatively rare in recent documentation of education policy development. The impact policy serves to illustrate the potential friction and abrasiveness involved in the relations between the two sectors; at the same time it can be shown to have contributed itself to the construction of a relationship between the sectors which has gone largely under-scrutinised in past studies of dual sector education provision in Australia.(From Introduction)