Learning lessons on education from ancient Greece
Published by Online Opinion , June 3, 2005 . A footnoted version of this article is vailable on request. Voters could be excused for being confused about the missed message coming from Canberra concerning K-12 education policy. While the Howard government generously funds private school, (a semi school voucher by any other name), his education minister has recently commissioned ACER to analyse and report on the leaving certificates in each state and territory and overseas examples of centralised Senior Secondary Certificates with the aim of establishing a “nationally … agreed system for assessing the academic standards of students completing year 12”. This could well be a foot in the door for Nelson to move towards a national curriculum. In 2003 Nelson was actively promoting a the concepoy. He said that, “Australia suffers because of curriculum inconsistencies between the states, by virtue of the states independent education systems” He has also...