5 ways to fix Australian education for the better
I have always seen great potential in the Australian education. In 2019, I told the ABC that based on what I have seen after spending a year here, it was my belief that Australia had “one of the best education systems anywhere.” “It is world class. But only for some children,” I pointed out. I have two primary school-aged children and my wife works in education – hence my position to the question how to change Australia’s…
read moreWe need Gonski now more than ever
By Pasi Sahlberg and Adrian Piccoli If you were a disadvantaged child today in an Australian school, chances are high that a majority of the other children in your school would also be disadvantaged. Your school would most likely need more resources to have experienced special education experts; it probably would not have qualified mathematics and science teachers, and nobody to teach music. In this respect, Australia is an outlier…
read moreThe Australian school system has a serious design flaw
I was trembling. Not because I was about to do something risky or scary – quite the opposite. This was a situation I had been in many times before, but I was nervous about what was going to happen next. I was on the Concert Hall stage at the Sydney Opera House looking at an audience of about 2,000 people. Not to perform music, thankfully. I’d been invited to speak about why Australia should abolish its private schools. Typical…
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