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Payment by results: Teachers’ work, remuneration, and student assessment

Victoria, 1863-1906

By Carole Hooper, TITC, BA, BEd, PhD, Independent scholar. Posted .

The performance-based system, known colloquially as ‘payment-by-results’, whereby teachers’ remuneration was partly determined by the success of their pupils at prescribed examinations, was introduced into Victorian government-aided schools in early1864. Although criticised by many throughout its 40-year existence, the system was not finally abolished until 1906, following the recommendation of a Royal Commission on Education (Fink).… Continue Reading »

Free, compulsory and secular Education Acts

Australia, 1850-1910

By Craig Campbell, PhD DipEd, University of Sydney. Posted .

In each of the Australian colonies, usually in the 1870s, there were education acts passed that established public school systems. Their defining characteristics have usually been described as ‘free, compulsory and secular’. The Act that came closest to establishing all three of these conditions at the same time was the Victorian Education Act of 1872.… Continue Reading »