Aboriginal children as young as 5 are getting suspended from school. We can’t ‘close the gap’ if this is happening
- Written by Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow School of Education, The University of Queensland
The recent Closing the Gap report had some promising news for education, with a 25% increase in Aboriginal children enrolled in childcare over the past seven years.
But other report figures show there are still big issues to solve in schools. This includes only 68% of Indigenous people aged 20-24 finishing Year 12.
This comes on top of regular...





