Review of Funding for Schooling Response

Independent Schools Victoria has made a submission to the Review of Funding for Schooling.
Click here to access a copy of the submission.

Independent Schools Victoria has also prepared a number of fact sheets relevant to the Review, which can be accessed below:

• Fact Sheet 1 - Facts and Figures about Victorian Independent Schools
• Fact Sheet 2 - Recommendations
• Fact Sheet 3 - Portable Funding Allowance Proposal
• Fact Sheet 4 - Community Based Funding Proposal

Independent Schools Victoria has also responded to the following Review of Funding for Schooling papers:

• Response to Commissioned Research Assessment of Current Process for Targeting of Schools Funding to Disadvantaged Students
• Response to Commissioned Research Feasibility of a National Schooling Recurrent Resource Standard
• Response to Commissioned Research Schooling Challenges and Opportunities
• Response to Commissioned Research Assessing Existing Funding Models for Schooling in Australia

Posters Highlight Independent Schools’ Concerns

These five posters highlight issues that support our arguments that we will be making in relation to the Review of Funding for Schooling that is due to report to the Australian Government by the end of 2011.

You are welcome to download these posters and display them in the coming months. The posters’ simple, easily remembered messages are reinforced with factual data.

To view and print the posters, please click on each individual poster (PDF).

Annual Review

• Click here to read Independent Schools Victoria 2010 - 2011 Annual Review

Independent Schools Victoria Media Releases

For more information, or to interview Michelle Green, contact Brian M. Peck on 0437 515 505.

Greens Threaten School Funding over Student Enrolments

Non-government schools could lose Commonwealth funding because of the students they enrol under proposals made today by the Australian Greens, says Michelle Green, Chief Executive, Independent Schools Victoria.

19 January 2012

Baillieu Government Congratulated on Keeping Election Commitment

We congratulate the Victorian Government on keeping its election commitment to remove the requirement for non-government schools to pay the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution (GAIC) on land for new schools, says Michelle Green, Chief Executive, Independent Schools Victoria.

29 November 2011

Funding Review Changes could Cost Taxpayers - Victorian Government

The Victorian Government’s submission to the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling says that Victorians would be required to spend an additional $17.6 million each year for every one per cent of students moving from non-government schools to the government system.

4 November 2011

Independent Schools Victoria Fails Funding Research

A research report prepared for the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling lacks factual evidence and seems to be ideologically driven, and a second is a wasted opportunity in this crucial time for the education sector across Australia, says Independent Schools Victoria.

9 October 2011

Independent Schools Victoria Submissions

A Definition of Charity - Consultation Paper Response

Independent Schools Victoria welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Australian Government’s Definition of Charity consultation paper and to comment on the review of the charitable and not-for-profit sectors.

9 December 2011

Independent Schools Victoria's Video Messages

Independent schools have a tradition of building links with their surrounding communities. They nurture close relationships which benefit both the students and the wider community. Commitment to community service is embedded in the school ethos, its values and philosophy. Click here to view the video.

Education is Australia's Future. 'Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.' - Article 26, United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here to view the video.

Click here to view the VPC's Fight the Funding Injustice for Students with Disabilities YouTube message.