Collaborating to improve education outcomes
Through collaborating with funding partners and sector practitioners, SVA believes we can ensure 220,000 disadvantaged children will achieve educational outcomes on par with their more fortunate peers by 2020.
Our belief is that the most effective intervention areas to bridge the current equity gap and improve outcomes for disadvantaged children are:
- Ensuring low SES children attend a high quality early childhood education program;
- Developing and supporting high-performing schools in low SES neighbourhoods through improving teacher effectiveness and quality leadership;
- Supporting parents and the community members in low SES neighbourhoods so that they can engage with schools and support students to reach their full potential.
With a specific focus on these intervention areas, SVA will continue to build on our heartland work with non-profit venture partners. We will also lead and collaborate on projects that enable further knowledge development and sharing, as well as contribute to ongoing systemic change.
Quick links
In September 2011 the inaugural Education Dialogue was hosted by SVA, bringing together a cross-sector and cross-state group of leading practitioners, thinkers, bureaucrats, funders and academics.
The aim for the day was to showcase what is working to turnaround student achievement in our most disadvantaged schools and identify how we can duplicate this success and ultimately achieve system-wide improvement. In other words, how we can turn bright spots into a bright system. Read the output of the Dialogue.
In December 2009, a non-profit syndicate comprising Social Ventures Australia, Mission Australia, the Benevolent Society and the Brotherhood of St Laurence successfully bid for and purchased 650 plus ABC Learning Centres from receivers McGrathNicol. Learn more about this new start being offered through Goodstart Early Learning.
Learn more about the inspirational work of the education-focused venture partners in SVA’s current portfolio -
- Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME)
- Big Picture Education Australia
- Teach for Australia
- The Song Room
As well as the way in which venture partners such as Beacon Foundation and Ganbina, that focus on ensuring successful school to work transitions for students, link the work SVA undertakes in both the education and employment space.
Since 2007 SVA Consulting has been engaged by over 40 clients across a range of their offerings. Take a moment to read a snapshot of their work in education for organisations like Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), Hands On Learning, Djararragun College and Higher Expectations Program.