THE launch of the Gillard government’s revamped My School website could be delayed for months after Schools Minister Peter Garrett was forced to concede that financial data for some private schools contained serious errors. The much anticipated new version of the website, which was due to go live today, will not be launched until next
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Julia Gillard on ABC has trouble convincing Lyndal Curtis the the ALP education policy is original. LYNDAL CURTIS: But you’re introducing the same element of compulsion that the Howard government proposed on transparency. JULIA GILLARD: No, we’re introducing a very different system. And the important difference, the most important difference to understand is this. The
Gillard blames Howard for skills drop
EDUCATION Minister Julia Gillard has blamed the Howard government for a decline in the literacy and numeracy standards of Australian students. Fair enough. Her team won the election and thus have sledging rights but I do think it’s a bit simplistic. The Federal Government’s main input into education is funding the states who then apply
The Australian Education Union tells lies
THE Australian Education Union (AEU) is simply lying. In it’s add currently showing on TV they claim Howard ignores public school education. Just to have it on record on this site I quote the Australian The campaign mirrors a $1 million advertising blitz by the AEU against the Government at the last election, urging a
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Rudd now wants to join the education debate
At a seminar in Brisbane earlier yesterday with education spokeswoman Jenny Macklin, Mr Rudd challenged John Howard to a national debate on education We’ve been having a national debate on education for some time now. It has centred on the ALP’s left wing attitudes to teaching and will most probably continue for some time. I
Raffle funds ‘used to pay teachers’
From the Australian… Of the 331 Victorian principals who responded to the Australian Education Union (AEU) survey, 87 per cent said funds raised by the schools through events like fetes were seen to be very important or important. Fair enough. I used to be involved in school committees and helped raise a lot of money
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What happened Doc?
Currency Lad has an email from a reader about the struggle she and her husband had to put their kids through a private school. They are not happy Latham! I don’t blame her. In a previous life, a long time ago, I was a recruiting Sergeant and in one day I lectured at two north-of-the-harbour
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Where I’ve been
I have just spent six days at Carnarvon Gorge helping the staff of a local Boys college run an environment studies bush week. I am often caught criticizing the education system including the input of teachers and output of young Australians but must give credit where credit is due and in this case do it
Education
When I was away the news of the North Korea rail disaster broke and I was listening to a junior relative ratting on about how if it happened in the USA we would know all about it. I mentioned it might be because the US is a free and open society and North Korea isn’t,
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