Digital micro-credentialing and the "slow death" of ATAR are the future of education, according to a new review, but research shows COVID-era school leavers will be worse off.Peter Shergold, the chancellor of Western Sydney University, says the ATAR will face a slow death over the next five years
A new report into school leavers' transition into work or further study has recommended the ATAR "cannot continue to dominate the education experience", as the Australian education system adjusts to the longer-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis. "I'm not calling — the panel is not calling — for the execution of ATAR. It's [a] slow death over the next five years.
"If you go back to the group who graduated from school during the global financial crisis, in fact they had been disadvantaged, they are still playing catch-up," Professor Shergold said.Research has shown the long-term effect on recession-era school leavers, says EY chief economist Jo Masters. Jan Owen, co-convenor of Learning Creates Australia — a collaboration of philanthropic and education-sector stakeholders attempting to transform the system — said the promise that education makes about leading to careers and things like home ownership was "broken at the moment for a generation of young people".
. QLDEducation and QCAA_edu just moved Queensland over to the ATAR system. I'll bet the out-of-touch ex-teachers who haven't seen a classroom in decades that made the decision are not going to suffer in any way. In fact they've prob all been promoted since...
Not sure that a cafe is the right option at the moment & all this talk of emotional empathy & teamwork. I've always believed people will crawl over each other`s dead bodies to secure promotion & more money. Human nature being what it is.