The result was the establishment in 1837 of a state board of education, charged with collecting and publicizing school information throughout the state.
In a world in which cross-border student numbers are growing at twice the rate of domestic student populations, both the UK and Australia generate major export income as providers of English-language education, charging Asian and African students fees well above those paid by local students.
It then raises some relevant issues of social policy, such as targeting, queuing for primary education, charging for basic social services, the education vaccine against AIDS, and the inherent un-equalizing nature of globalization.
Independent schools also provide both primary and secondary education but charge tuition.
The University of Western Australia, founded the same year, offered higher education without charging tuition.
The spring education conference charge against testing, for instance, has rarely been stronger on rejectionism.
The reforms could allow universities considered to be providing a higher quality education to charge more than £9,000 a year for tuition, in line with inflation.
If it were up to me, I'd put Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, in charge of American policy in the Arab-Muslim world.
"Mr Abbott cannot be allowed to get away with abandoning the funding of education or charging hundreds of thousands of parents to send their children to public schools".
David Willetts, a Conservative education spokesman, charged $120 to have an electrician come to his house and change the light bulbs in the bathroom.
