Episode 4: Ashley Hay on Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves

A rich conversation between Ashley and Nicole on the contributions by writers including Bri Lee, Gabbie Stroud and Tegan Bennett Daylight to Edition 75 of Griffith Review, Learning Curves on the challenges facing the education sector at every level. They write about the under-funding and inconsistencies in early childhood education, the inequities of the public/private school divide and the impact that is having on academic performance, and the crisis facing universities, which existed pre-COVID but has been exacerbated by it. All is not gloom and doom – they also suggest ways forward.

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About Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves

From preschool to postgrad, from private to public, and from sandstone to the school of life, what do the parameters of our educational experiences add up to? What does a good education look like in a country with an increasingly segregated school system, public funding for private institutions, and a tertiary sector that’s facing an uncertain financial and philosophical future?

Edited by Ashley Hay, Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves features new work by Raewyn Connell, Bri Lee, Andrew Leigh, Melanie Myers, Pasi Sahlberg, Gabbie Stroud and Miriam Sved, among many others.