The Commonwealth Schools Commission published, in April this year, Commonwealth Standards for Australian Schools, in which the Commission establishes a range of recurrent resource standards which it judges to be desirable for Australian schools.

In the first part of the report the Commission addressed the principles by which such standards were established as well as the educational context and objectives of Australian schooling, and considered the factors affecting the development of these objectives, the changes in society and education.

In the second part of the report, Basic Recurrent Resource Standards for Australian Schools, recommendations are made for school organisation, school size, class size and student groupings, staffing and other resources.