Miranda Live: What Gonski 2.0 means for your kids
IT’S be touted as the blueprint to lift Australia’s sluggish educational performance — but is Gonski 2.0 all it’s cracked up to be? Or will it actually hurt students? Miranda Live speaks to the experts.
IT’S be touted as the blueprint to lift Australia’s sluggish educational performance — but is Gonski 2.0 all it’s cracked up to be? Or will it actually hurt students? Miranda Live speaks to the experts.
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Daily Telegraph columnist Miranda Devine sat down with Education and Training Minister Simon Birmingham and research fellow Dr Jennifer Buckingham after the Gonski report was handed down today.
David Gonski’s second major look at the Australian education system calls for a modernisation of the system and a move towards a more individualised learning program for students.
But the plan is not without its critics, including Dr Buckingham.
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