London-based Michaela Community School, under the leadership of Katharine Birbalsingh CBE has unapologetically put discipline of its students — and parents for that matter — front and centre of its mission, leading to its status as ‘Britain’s strictest school’. What lessons do Australian schools have to learn?
Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University
Sociologist, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Author of The New Authoritarianism
Programme Co-ordinator of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia
Former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives and Cabinet Minister
Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Academic Culture, and Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Founder and President, Middle East Forum, publisher Middle East Quarterly Journal, (US)
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS
Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)
UQ-CSIRO Chair in Personalised Nanodiagnostics, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland
Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, Chairman & CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates Ltd based in Beijing
Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University, (US)
