Jewel Topsfield
Jewel Topsfield is the education editor at The Age. She was formerly the deputy editor of the National Times and spent three years in the Press Gallery in Canberra, reporting on education, immigration and federal politics. Jewel has been a journalist with The Age since 2004.
Dixon less inclined to sign on to Gonski
Jewel Topsfield, Daniel Hurst Victoria will ''totally rethink'' its approach to negotiations over school funding reforms amid concerns that the extra $2.
Garrett critical of fall in education spending
Jewel Topsfield Reduction state spending in Victoria next year further proof of need for reform, minister says.
Pyne support for Teach for Australia
Jewel Topsfield Opposition education spokesman says Abbott government would continue to fund Teach for Australia.
More state schools may cater for gifted students
Jewel Topsfield Select-entry classes for children with high academic potential could be offered at more state high schools amid concerns the needs of many gifted and talented students are not being met.
PM gives Catholics funding assurance
Jewel Topsfield Julia Gillard promises Catholic schools will retain their 16.8 per cent share of total public funding.
State to miss out on $1b going it alone
Jewel Topsfield Victorian schools will miss out on more than $1 billion dollars over the next six years if the state government proceeds with its own 'half-baked' reform plan, federal School Education Minister Peter...
Analysis
Robbing Peter to pay pupil Paul
Jewel Topsfield The money had to come from somewhere, but it's pointless to rip funds from universities.
No way to bring about a clever country
Jewel Topsfield The essence of the meaning of ''rob Peter to pay Paul'', according to The Phrase Finder, is the pointlessness of taking from one only to give to another who was similar.
School body claims funds cut
Jewel Topsfield and Craig Butt Almost 20 per cent of Victorian independent schools - including low-fee schools in struggling areas - would lose money next year under the Commonwealth's funding reforms, according to Independent...
Gillard's school reforms in peril as states refuse
Daniel Hurst and Jewel Topsfield Prime Minister Julia Gillard's hopes of securing a landmark deal to overhaul school funding have suffered a setback, after Australia's biggest states baulked at a demand to sign up to school...
Gonski deadlock puts at risk $390m in federal funding
Jewel Topsfield State schools would receive $390 million less in federal funding next year than last year if the government fails to put in place the Gonski reforms, analysis shows.
State schools face $390 million hole
Jewel Topsfield State schools would receive $390 million less in Commonwealth funding next year than in 2012 if the government fails to put in place the Gonski school funding reforms, new analysis shows.
Gillard ups the ante on schools
Jewel Topsfield EXCLUSIVE Victoria is expected to receive a quarter of the additional $6.5 billion a year to be spent on schools under the Gillard government's funding reforms - four times what the Baillieu...
National school reform in tatters
Jewel Topsfield, Josephine Tovey VICTORIA has torpedoed the Gillard government's school reforms, announcing plans to introduce its own plan for education funding amid fears the Commonwealth proposal would leave many Victorian...
Gillard's school plan a costly failure
Jewel Topsfield A $16 million federal Labor commitment to stem the shortage of maths and science teachers by fast-tracking bankers, accountants and engineers into classrooms has been an expensive failure, with just...
PM, states urged to act on Gonski findings
Jewel Topsfield Group of 36 prominent Australians signed open letter to Prime Minister and premiers.
States demand Gonski details
Jewel Topsfield The states have complained they are still being kept in the dark over proposed school funding reforms, with one minister pulling out of Friday's meeting with the federal government amid fears it...
Pyne vows to scrap My School rankings
Jewel Topsfield The federal Coalition would reviewl NAPLAN tests and remove the publication of individual school results on the My School website if elected to government.
Gillard schools plan needs more work, says foreign education chief
Jewel Topsfield AUSTRALIA will need to rethink its education policies if it is going to meet Julia Gillard's goal, according to Finland's education chief.
Our big spend on private schools
Jewel Topsfield and Benjamin Preiss Australia spends a higher proportion of public money on private schools than other developed countries except Chile and Belgium, according to the latest global education snapshot.
