Rudd’s fix for situation ALP helped create
KEVIN Rudd’s TAFE, training and skills package seeks to protect a national public training system that has been increasingly pillaged and plundered.
Education
Indonesia first port in Colombo plan
THE first student-ambassadors could begin to arrive in Indonesia next year under a Coalition program.
Pearson Abbott’s man to fix schools
TONY Abbott has approached Cape York indigenous leader Noel Pearson to review the education of all disadvantaged and impoverished children.
Minister claims credit for Lib plan
TRAINING Minister Brendan O’Connor has incorrectly claimed credit for a Coalition policy.
Abbott plan to send students overseas
TONY Abbott has recommitted to a new Colombo plan supporting up to 300 young Australians to study in the Asia-Pacific region.
Schools to lose in hold-out states
PUBLIC schools in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory will miss out on funding worth about $1.2 billion.
Libs in school ‘independence’ push
TONY Abbott has launched the Coalition’s education policy, promising to match Labor’s spending dollar for dollar over four years.
Rudd affirms relationship with Japan
KEVIN Rudd has affirmed the importance of Australia’s relationship with Japan.
Educrats trying to change their spots
THE dumbed-down curriculum is dead.
The debate over Google-era learning
THE pre-eminence of traditional school subjects over “21st-century skills” has been supported by the custodian of the national curriculum.
Extra class time in remote lands
SCHOOLS in remote Aboriginal lands would open for 48 weeks a year under a plan being considered by South Australia to boost class attendance.
Old school counts in Google age
THE focus in modern school curriculum on “21st century skills” such as critical thinking, group work and creativity is mistaken.
Education tied up in red tape
THE major parties should agree to not increase the compliance burden on schools.
No evidence reading, maths plans help
ONLY two remedial reading programs are backed by strong evidence they help children struggling to learn to read.
Schools aid poorer students enter uni
THE academic standard of a school is a critical factor in whether disadvantaged students complete Year 12.
State goes alone in Gonski- style plan
WA has tied the introduction of a new funding model for schools based on the needs of students to the cutting of about 500 jobs.
$30m to get best minds in teaching
BILL Shorten will today announce Labor would spend an extra $30.9m to get the “very best and brightest” minds in Australia to teach in schools.
Barnett to spare teachers from axe
WEST Australian Premier Colin Barnett will shortly introduce a new Gonski-style funding model for teachers.
Time to foster meritocracy in education
WHY is funding always directed at the needy rather than the best and the brightest?
Standard drops off for top students
ANALYSIS of a decade of student tests provides compelling evidence of a fall in achievement in Australia.
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