Skip to content
The Catholic Leader
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
The Catholic Leader
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Fees in some Queensland Catholic schools to rise because of Gonski plan

byMark Bowling
23 November 2017 - Updated on 1 April 2021
Reading Time: 2 mins read
AA
students writing

Fee hike: About 30 Catholic schools run by religious institutes and incorporated bodies will be hit with rising fees because they are considered “over-funded” under the Government’s new Gonski 2.0 model.

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
students writing
Fee hike: About 30 Catholic schools run by religious institutes and incorporated bodies will be hit with rising fees because they are considered “over-funded” under the Government’s new Gonski 2.0 model.

PARENTS of students at some Queensland Catholic schools are bracing for fee increases of almost 10 per cent next year – a direct result of the new Federal Government funding changes to schools.

About 30 Catholic schools run by religious institutes and incorporated bodies are the hardest hit because they are considered “over-funded” under the Government’s new Gonski 2.0 model.

They include Stuartholme School, Toowong, with a fee increase of seven per cent and Mt St Michael’s College, Ashgrove, with a 9.5 per cent increase.

“It’s a tough one for families,” Catholic Schools’ Parents and Friends Association executive director Carmel Nash said.

“For some parents it will take away the choice of schools, that’s for sure.

“But it has been imposed on us by the Federal Government and there’s not a lot we can do, at this point.”

The fee increases can be explained because under the Gonski 2.0 model those Catholic schools which are currently funded above their Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) will have their funding reduced over the next six years.

This is the case with many Catholic religious institution schools, which include Marist College Ashgrove; All Hallows’ School, Brisbane and St Rita’s College, Clayfield.

It also includes major Catholic schools in towns across Queensland.

“The real disadvantage to those schools is that independent schools in a similar position will have their funding reduced over ten years, making the impacts more manageable for those schools,” Queensland Catholic Education Commission executive director Dr Lee-Anne Perry, who represents the Catholic sector on Gonski Review Panel, said.

Related Stories

Brisbane adoration community sees surge in adorers, more needed

Brisbane gets small morning reprieve to inspect damages after 72 hours hard rain

5-year-old preppie Peyton gets a sneak peak at his new school

“The Government has been unable to advance any reasonable arguments for the differential treatment of Catholic and independent schools in this way.

“The Government’s only suggestion is that systems like ours can distribute funding away from schools currently funded below their Schooling Resource Standard, which goes against the rationale for their own funding changes.

“Each affected Catholic school is making its own decisions about how best to manage the reduction in government funding according to its own circumstances.”

Mrs Nash said she knew affected schools were trying to implement “many things” including redundancies to try and reduce fee increases.

“When you are a stand-alone school the effects are much more pronounced than when you are part of a system,” she said.

Many Catholic schools across Queensland will receive increased funding under the new Gonski model, because their current funding falls below the SRS.

BCE schools will receive an increase, and have projected 2018 fee increases of only three per cent in line with increased operating costs.

ShareTweet
Previous Post

Meet the winners of the 2017 Community Leader Awards

Next Post

Wooloowin students knitting hope for refugees

Mark Bowling

Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia’s most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of ‘Running Amok’ that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.

Related Posts

A Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament
QLD

Brisbane adoration community sees surge in adorers, more needed

31 March 2022
Deluge: Flood waters at The Wheel of Brisbane at Southbank Parklands. Photos: Robert Falzon / Facebook
QLD

Brisbane gets small morning reprieve to inspect damages after 72 hours hard rain

28 February 2022
Learning fun: Teacher Maddi Ward with prep student Peyton Eslick in one of the new classrooms at Star of the Sea School, Merrimac.
Education

5-year-old preppie Peyton gets a sneak peak at his new school

12 February 2022
Next Post
Holy Cross, Wooloowin students yarnbombing

Wooloowin students knitting hope for refugees

Fr Gerard O'Dempsey

Capuchin Friars' new provincial minister takes up position in Sydney

The Cathedral College, Rockhampton in Central Australia

Immersion experience takes students to heart of Australia

Popular News

  • Angel’s Kitchen serves hot meals to the hungry in Southport

    Angel’s Kitchen serves hot meals to the hungry in Southport

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Nationwide rosary event happening for Australia’s patroness this Saturday

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Hearts ‘fused’ together living their vocation

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Here are the stories of 10 new saints being canonised this Sunday

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Queensland election: The pro-life political parties committed to abortion law reforms

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Search our job finder
No Result
View All Result

Latest News

Helping stroke survivors earns Ozcare volunteer national recognition
QLD

Helping stroke survivors earns Ozcare volunteer national recognition

by Staff writers
20 May 2022
0

SURVIVING a stroke has transformed Lewis Hoffman and the lives of those he selflessly helps as a...

Br Alan Moss remembered for a life of faith and learning

Br Alan Moss remembered for a life of faith and learning

19 May 2022
Catholic relationship advisers offer five tips to look after your mental health

Nationwide rosary event happening for Australia’s patroness this Saturday

19 May 2022
Francis offers advice on politics: Seek unity, don’t get lost in conflict

Francis offers advice on politics: Seek unity, don’t get lost in conflict

19 May 2022
Holiness is possible and the Church provides tools to attain it, cardinal says

Holiness is possible and the Church provides tools to attain it, cardinal says

18 May 2022

Never miss a story. Sign up to the Weekly Round-Up
eNewsletter now to receive headlines directly in your email.

Sign up to eNews
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Jobs
  • Subscribe

The Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate and balanced Catholic perspective of local, national and international news while upholding the dignity of the human person.

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader
Accessibility Information | Privacy Policy | Archdiocese of Brisbane

The Catholic Leader acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of this country and especially acknowledge the traditional owners on whose lands we live and work throughout the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyChoose another Subscription
    Continue Shopping