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The Budget provided thousands of Australian schools with some much-needed good news, but big challenges remain

Education policies need to be judged by students’ results rather than good intentions and political expediency.

Advertisement A social media-driven "cult of the guru" within education is giving flashy "Kardashian" academics disproportionate influence over schools at the expense of more complex ideas and research, new research argues. Scott Eacott, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of NSW, applied the "Kardashian Index" to 50 education researchers from around the world, including 11 from Australia, and found almost a quarter - eight men and four women - had a score high en...