Minister’s ‘dud teachers’ claim is factually wrong and bad politics: Ex-NSW education minister | LisaVisentin
Former NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli says it is factually wrong to blame “dud” public school teachers for the decline in the academic results of Australian students, adding the assertion was bad politics by the federal Education Minister ahead of the election.declared in a speech on Thursday
“We’ve got this very long underperforming tail, but the biggest decline is in high-performing students not doing as well as they used to. A large chunk of those high performing students go to independent schools and selective government schools,” Mr Piccoli, the former director of the Gonski Institute for Education at the University of NSW, said.
Australia’s results on the PISA, which tests 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science in more than 80 countries, have slipped from fourth to 16th in reading, eighth to 17th in science and 11th to 29th in maths over the past 20 years.Defending his views on Friday, Mr Robert said his comments were not a “crack at state school teachers at all” but reasserted his claim that 10 per cent of teaching graduates were not up to standard.
Glenn Fahey, a research fellow in education policy at the conservative-leaning Centre for Independent Studies, said students who failed the LANTITE could not be registered as practising teachers but could still pass their degree.
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