Educational Standards

Australian Education: A Half Term Report

31 March 2010 Australia vs UK

We’ve recently had a few articles about education in Australia, most recently I compared Australian education standards with those of the UK and the USA. Narrowing the field down slightly, today I’m going to look at the educational standards of one 6 year old little girl. My little girl. In January she started her first [...]

Australian Education Standards Compared to the UK and USA.

3 March 2010 Australia vs UK

I think it started when I got an email from Vivienne, a lady who has moved from Australia to the UK. She felt quite strongly that educational standards in the UK were better than here in Australia. I promised to look into it. Then, in a post I wrote about the cost of education in [...]

Australian Schools: Helping You To Choose.

29 January 2010 Moving To Australia

As I mentioned in my most recent post, which was about our Australia Day celebrations, the Wednesday following Australia Day saw all of our school kids returning after the long summer holidays. First -the back to school news. How was Elizabeth’s first day at REAL school? As you probably know, she’s been at real school [...]