Tag Archives: Gonski

Our high levels of funding for private schools is now taken for granted. It is seen as an expression of parents’ rights over their children’s education.

Not convinced by NAPLAN? Primary school kids, Indigenous students and ESL (English as a second language) students have all shown significant score increases since 2008 but no widespread improvements for students in the past year. 

The recently developed and implemented Australian Curriculum should be rewritten so every learning area and general capability is written up as a number of progression levels.

Very few schools actually get their target level of government funding.

To put the figure in perspective, $56B is larger than the contribution of the entire Australian tourism industry and four times the size of the Australian beef industry.

The Turnbull Government's rhetoric claims it has not cut money to schools. But as trouble is brewing in all sectors - public, Catholic and independent - in reaction to the funding changes.

Capabilities, like critical thinking, creativity and communication must be taken seriously or Australia risks falling behind international education standards.

David Gonski wants to replace Australia’s year-level based education system with individualised learning. What does this mean and how will it work?

The Australian Education Union says 87% of public schools are funded below the minimum requirement, with $1.9 billion cut from public schools in 2018 & 2019.

Year-based curriculum should be scrapped over the next five years to allow students to learn progressively to their abilities. This is one of 23 recommendations in Gonski's new report, listed here.