Category : Indians in Australia

A nine year old arrives in Sydney from Pune in March. She has been taught in English since kindergarten, at a school where the medium of instruction is English and the language of the playground is Marathi. She reads English well. She cannot follow a fast classroom conversation, does not know the word for anything […]Read More

In 2025, students from Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language backgrounds became the largest language group in New South Wales government schools. There are 75,187 of them, 24.1 per cent of all students from a language background other than English. Ten years ago the share was 15.9 per cent. Urdu is spoken in the homes of 10,043 […]Read More

Around 18,000 children sit the NSW Selective High School Placement Test each year. About one in four gets a place. Up to 20 per cent of those places are set aside under a scheme called the Equity Placement Model. There is no separate application. Every child is considered for it automatically. And no family is […]Read More