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.
Education Revolution
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.
Higher ed and research: better than might have been expected
Each time Swan talked about infrastructure he was careful to add “unis and hospitals”.
“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.
Mungo: Education revolution needs more thought
States, schools and teachers had bloody well better shape up, because those who fail will be punished to within an inch of their lives and if necessary beyond, writes Mungo MacCallum.
A teacher’s letter to the PM
Until you start paying teachers decently as they work their way up the pay scale, you will never keep the good people in the job, writes Joycelyn Brewer
Lowbottom High Diaries: Classrooms without performance indicators
‘I reckon youse is for the big drop, Sir,’ quoth Tarquin this very day. The honorific, it should be said, was delivered in a tone strictly ironic, writes Trevor Diogenes.
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Election promises be damned, Rudd must abandon populism
Kevin Rudd promised that Labor’s decisions on policy would be “evidence based”, but the evidence belies that so far, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Flint: Rudd’s digitally enhanced rhetoric dupes swooning media
Tired by a campaign which he says is “just so damn hard,” Kevin Rudd should be encouraged that there could be a job for him at the ABC if he doesn’t win — as an autocue reader at Media Watch, writes David Flint.
