Summary
Richard Teese is professor and director of the Centre for Research on Education Systems in the University of Melbourne. His research is concerned with how well education systems work, for whom and why. He works closely with state governments in Australia on system improvement and equity, including resource allocation and budget models, student achievement differences, destinations monitoring, and curriculum provision and participation in schools. In 2003-4, he worked on the new Student Resource Package (SRP) which funds government schools in Victoria, and again in 2007 on rolling benchmarks for the SRP. In 2008-9 he led a study commissioned by the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria into funding patterns and student outcomes, and 2009-10 he undertook an analysis of resource outcomes for government schools in Western Australia. With Stephen Lamb, he is currently reviewing the resource allocation mechanism in Western Australia.
Richard has made seminal contributions to educational theory and policy. His publications include International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy (2007), Undemocratic Schooling (2003), and Academic Success and Social Power (2000), awarded the Woodward Metal for Excellence in Humanities publishing. His translation of Bourdieu’s Academic Discourse was published jointly by Polity Press, Cambridge, and Stanford University Press in 1994. Richard was rapporteur for the OECD review of equity in Spanish education (2005) and for the OECD review of Scotland in 2007. He was principal author of the report from that project, Quality and Equity of Schooling in Scotland (OECD 2007). In 2010, he led the OECD team investigating equity in Ontario. In 2009 he received a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning under the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
Experience
- Professor of Post-Compulsory Education and Training, The University of Melbourne 1974 – present