Major changes to funding including the abolition of a $1.2 billion fund for Catholic and independent schools and introducing strong consequences for universities that don't raise ATAR requirements for teaching degrees are part of new recommendations for the next Commonwealth government.
"Australia's advantaged students do reasonably well, but our disadvantaged students are a long way behind those in Canada, Japan and Korea ... and segregation among schools continues to grow," notes the Grattan report.$1.2 billion Choice and Affordability Fund Grattan has also recommended changes to teaching practices and degrees to help lift students' falling performance in international assessments.
"It's not clear the consequences are sufficient for universities that don't lift their game, both in terms of who they admit and how they run teaching degrees, student placements and other such elements," Dr Goss said.
pallavisinghal_ No funding for private or religious schools in USA. None.
pallavisinghal_ This should happen!
pallavisinghal_ Those damn Catholic schools and their consistently higher than average grades. It's like they take this education thing seriously.