Cut ‘blows Gonski out of the water’
THE NSW government has flagged cutting $67 million a year in public funding from Catholic and independent schools.
Education
‘Cut TAFEs, redraw archaic deals’
QUEENSLAND’s government should halve the number of TAFE campuses and completely revamp industrial agreements, a report says.
Competition ‘to lift school standards’
IMPROVEMENT in the school system will be driven from the bottom.
Rudd stalks PM on education crusade
JULIA Gillard gazumped the former leader by doing a carbon backflip before he could.
Labor rejects Gonski’s ‘red tape’
LABOR has dropped a recommendation of the Gonski review to establish an independent body to set funding levels for schools.
Parent control gives kids best marks
IN remote Parnngurr parents have taken charge of their children’s learning and achieved stunning results.
School reform a key to mining future: PM
JULIA Gillard has linked her Gonski schools reforms to the future of the nation’s mining industry, declaring education, not immigration, will eliminate skilled labour shortages.
Strong economy will fund reforms: PM
JULIA Gillard says the strength of Australia’s ”world-leading” economy means there should be no question over its ability to pay for the Gonski reforms.
High hopes at education coalface
MERRYLANDS High School principal Lila Mularczyk was starting her 30-year career the last time education funding got such an overhaul.
Altona doesn’t fit PM’s description
ACROSS from Julia Gillard’s home, principal Nathan Chisholm was taken aback when he heard she had been talking about Altona.
Who will pay for the crusade?
THE education revolution coined by Kevin Rudd is over.
Aid for every indigenous student
THE government has ignored one recommendation of the Gonski review because it would have disadvantaged indigenous students.
Elitists threaten university quality
INVESTING in a few big players to climb world rankings would drop the average.
ALP’s zeal will have to wait until 2525
I am always on the lookout for songs to accompany government policy.
Gillard rings the bell on school inequity
THE nation’s neediest schools will receive the fastest rate of funding increase under an overhaul of the education system.
Uncertainty ‘imperils’ planning
INDEPENDENT and Catholic schools have expressed concern about the lack of detail in Julia Gillard’s response to the Gonski review.
PM’s warning to states on school reforms
JULIA Gillard has called on Australians to get behind a $6.5 billion “national crusade” to give children a better education, but won’t yet say how much the states will have to fund.
School outcomes not Canberra’s job: Pyne
THE Coalition’s Christopher Pyne says the federal government isn’t responsible for school outcomes, as he attacked Labor’s vow to lift the nation’s standards.
We could do better than fifth
“BY 2025, Australia should be ranked as a top five country in the world for the performance of our students in reading, science and mathematics.”
Labor’s ‘top five’ schools goal
JULIA Gillard will today link school funding to student results in international tests, targeting the top five in reading, maths and science by 2025.
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