The changing nature of school fees and government funding amongst Australia’s Catholic, Independent, and public schools worsen societal gaps in the country, Chris Bonnor writes.

Women who receive higher education are by no means better off than men who opt for vocational education, Brody Hannan and Francesca Maclean write.

Though Australia has seen more students from non-metropolitan areas enter university over the years, it hasn’t focused enough on keeping them there and helping them graduate, Chris Ronan writes.

Despite heavy online censorship from the government, China’s new wave of tech-savvy feminists are bringing #MeToo to their own shores, Zhongli Yu writes.

In December 2017 Crawford School committed to a gender balance of men and women in its public events program. How did the school do? Helen Sullivan reports on a long walk with a few bumps in the road.

In this final Policy Forum Pod of the year, we hear from dozens of voices across the policy research community about what policymakers got right and wrong over 2018, and what could be done better in 2019.