How the BER went from success to screw-up in a few short hoursTobias Ziegler tracks how news outlets spun the Building the Education Revolution audit report from success to scandal in the hours following its release yesterday.
Education Revolution
Read all about it: the BER program worked, and worked well
The Audit Office was expected by the media to belt the Government over its Building the Education Revolution stimulus package measures. On the contrary, it says the program is working well. Oops.
The Powerfox versus the pedagogues
Daily Media Wrap: Julia Gillard is under heavy spit-ball fire from all sides of the classroom today, facing shonky builders, angry teachers, stubborn unionists and smarmy Australian columnists.
Hadley: BER = Blunder-filled Education Rort
Is Gillard’s BER going to be a similar story to Garrett’s insulation scheme saga? It may not have the deaths involved, but the money being wasted is criminal, writes 2GB host Ray Hadley.
Getting back to basics or ignoring the key issues?
After years of individual state curriculums for school, the first national curriculum has been released for public discussion. How does the new curriculum hold up? Is the ‘back to basics’ attitude a positive one or an oversimplification?
Talking ’bout a failed international revolution
Julia Gillard wants to bring in leagues tables for Australian schools, just like in the US and England. Too bad the US and English evidence based educated systems have been a disaster, writes Kevin Donnelly.
Kelly: The power behind Julia, the people’s princess
Deputy PM Julia Gillard’s image has moved from leftie Work Choice demolisher to capable and popular Acting PM. Can her so-called Education Revolution work to solidify her policy making skills? asks Paul Kelly.
Local concerns swept aside by Gillard’s Education Revolution
Planning no longer operates under this system of fairness — not when the Education Revolution is on the agenda, writes Cr Claude Ullin, mayor of the City of Stonnington.
Split in the professional education and research landscape
Fritz Blacksmith looks at a public differences in the professional education and research sector. Are school league tables the way to go?
Does Gillard really have a Director of School Signage?
Schools have been told to stop erecting the government’s controversial “Building the Education Revolution” signs. But does the sign scheme have a director and just how much money has it been given? asks Christian Kerr.
Lowbottom High Diaries: Lowbottom Diaries: The new school leaving age will ruin us all
Big Sister has decreed that 17 is the new leaving age. O me miserum, the cry has gone up from school staffrooms across the land, says Trevor Diogenes.
Blair’s education plans do a full revolution
The government’s education revolution looks identical to failed policies introduced in Britain by ex-PM Tony Blair. The micro-managing of schools does not work.
Like it or lose it in Rudd’s education revolution
In Victoria, principals who speak out against Kevin Rudd’s computers-in-schools policy risk losing their funding, as the education revolution turns crimson.
Tips and rumours: Building stalls on the Education Revolution
Funding has taken a step backwards in the government’s “Education Revolution”, factional fun in the Queensland ALP left, is Isobel Redmond getting ambitious? and more from Crikey’s tipsters.
Gillard gives The Oz an F on education reporting
Gillard’s response to The Australian’s campaign against the education revolution was about as comprehensive a demolition as you’ll get.
Students aren’t talking ’bout a revolution
The catchcry of an “Education Revolution” may be popular in the Rudd government, but many university students are failing to see any hint of change.
Whatever happened to the Education Revolution?
The bottom line is that funding per student in higher education remains lower than before the mid-1990s, and considerably lower than in most OECD countries, writes Erica Cervini.
“Education Revolution” a broken promise
With the GFC taking priority, Rudd’s promised “Education Revolution” will not be delivered in next week’s budget, says Simon Marginson.
Education revolution brings stress and strain with the largesse
Schools across the country are suffering unexpected strain from their share of the government’s largesse.
Budget countdown: education is kind of okay
Amidst the fury of debate over education in Australia we overlook the fact that, as with health, Australia does education well.
G20 done, Rudd’s recession rubber hits the road
Rudd’s inclusiveness is in part a political weapon to isolate the Coalition from the mainstream, writes Bernard Keane.
Lowbottom High Diaries: Big Sister
In one’s youth Big Sister was a range of cake and pudding mixes. In the new millennium it is those power skirts in the federal and state governments who seem to want to play headmistress, writes Trevor Diogenes.
The digital divide holding back disadvantaged kids
Children whose parents do not have a computer, or cable TV or a DVD player, or cannot afford monthly internet service bills will be at a serious disadvantage in the future, Drs Patricia and Don Edgar write.
Lowbottom High Diaries: Re-educating Rita
While we wait for the Mao suits to be delivered and stocks of the Little Red Schoolbook disinterred for distribution in the Education Revolution, staff members have been exhorted to discard Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Kevin’s Gate Part One: The Leader muses…
Government insider Walter Slurry has forwarded several extracts from the secret pillow diaries of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. A fascinating insight into the subconscious of power.
