RE ATAR Unit 4: role Religion plays in the public life of Australia or another nation
Religion in Education
Liberty and Equality
- Liberty and Equality: Australia's History of Schooling that Marion Maddox Doesn't Tell - ABC Religion and EthicsArticle by David Hastie (Director of Cambridge International Courses at Presbyterian Ladies College)
- Christian Schools Australia defends right to hire and fire teachers over beliefsArticle from The Guardian
State Funding
- Funding Schools
FACT
In 2020:
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- There were 4,006,974 students enrolled in schools across Australia, an increase of 58,163 (1.5%) since 2019
- 65.6% of students were enrolled in government schools, 19.4% in Catholic schools and 15% independent schools
- Teachers made up 70% of in-school staff
- The Year 7 to 12 Apparent Retention Rate for Australia was 83.6%
The Catholic Church has established primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Australia. Today one in five Australian students attend Catholic schools. There are over 1,700 Catholic schools in Australia with more than 750,000 students enrolled, employing almost 60,000 teachers.
- State Aid to Catholic Schools
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- Religion in Australian schoolsan historical and contemporary debate
Below is an edited extract from "The Rise of Religious Schools" was published by The Centre for Independent Studies earlier this month. The full report is available from www.cis.org.au
- The Rise of Religious Schools in AustraliaAs religious schools have become more numerous and more visible, they have also become more prominent in debates on education policy. The most contentious issue for the non-government sector generally has been public funding.
However, with the emergence of religious schools that depart from the "broad church" Western Judeo-Christian tradition, questions about the nature of these schools and their impact on society have come to the fore. - Religion in Decline in Australian SchoolsBy Pallavi Singhal
12 August 2018 — 12:00am